Quick Definition
The practice of authors, researchers, and institutions making their scholarly products (such as books, journal articles, and dissertations) freely available online without most copyright and licensing restrictions.
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Libraries, museums, publishers and other content providers are actively organizing and making collections of open access resources available. Examples of Open access collections are
- Research Articles - these collections frequently emerge from governmentally funded research or else are journals that are ideological committeed to the free dissemination of research information.
- Open Educational Resources (OER) - are freely available, openly licensed documents and multimedia that are useful for teaching, learning, assessment, and research.
- Institutional Respositories - these collections provide access and information on the intellectual work produced by the faculty and employees of a college or university.