What is Open Access?
Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. - Peter Suber
- Open access refers to "access" to resources and not a business model, license or type of content.
- It is not free to publish or produce and is not synonymous with universal access.
- It is compatible with peer review, high quality publishing, indexing and other features normally associated with traditional subscription access models.
- Copyright law still applies to open access resources.
Peter Suber, Director of Harvard Office of Scholarly Communication and Director of Harvard Open Access Project