Open Access (OA) publications are digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
OA publications:
- Remove price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, etc.) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions)
- Are compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance
- Come in a variety of formats including articles, monographs, data, software, online education, and more
Leading directories of OA journals and repositories: