What is Open Access?

The term Open Access (often abbreviated to OA) is used for freely accessible online scholarly information. In traditional publishing models for academic or scholarly content, the reader usually pays for a copy of the article or a subscription to a journal or database. In OA, publishing costs are paid by the publisher, the writer or some other organization and the reader can access the information without any charges.

Please read the elaborate entry for open access in Wikipedia.

Information platform open-access.net now online! Open-access.net, an online information platform on open access issues is going online now. The Universities of Bielefeld, Goettingen, Constance and the Free University of Berlin jointly operate the platform and have received funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The platform intends to inform on the growing scientific and political significance of open access issues. At the German E-Science Conference 2007 hold on 2 May 2007 in Baden-Baden the online information platform was launched to the public for the first time.
The new platform enables not only scientists to gain comprehensive information about open access.
Open access literature is defined as free of charge for users providing online access to digital scholarly material worldwide. Since the <http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html>Berlin


Launch of the Depot in UK
The purpose of the Depot is to enable all UK academics to share in the benefits of open access exposure for their research outputs. As part of JISC RepositoryNet, the Depot is provided as a national facility geared to support the policies of UK universities and national funding agencies towards Open Access, aiding policy development in advance of a comprehensive institutional archive network.

http://depot.edina.ac.uk/


EPrints for Digital Repositories
Within this site you will find information and resources to make open access a reality within your own institution.

http://www.eprints.org/