The Advantages of Open Access
- 1. The Advantages of Being OPEN By Renee Yong #MANG2049
- 2. Open Access means... ● Giving literature to the world without expectation of payment ● Free availability on the Internet ● Permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software. (Bailey, 2006)
- 3. ● Recipients can use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. (Bailey, 2006) Open Access means...
- 4. ● The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. (Bailey, 2006) Open Access means... Credit me, please!
- 5. What does openness give? ● Increased audience ■ allowing access to your work ● Increased reuse ■ allowing adaptations of your work ● Increased experimentation ■ allowing feedback and participation (Weller, 2013)
- 6. What does openness give? ● Increased revenue ■ allowing payment for additional services, creating a demand for the content ● Increased reputation ■ allowing an improvement of author’s profile, establishing identity (Weller, 2013)
- 7. How will openness help? ● More people can see your work, build upon it and cite you. ● Discovery is accelerated as a result of openness. (PHD Comics, 2012)
- 8. References Bailey JR, Charles W. “What is Open Access?” in: Jacobs, Neil, ed. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2006. Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics) (2012) Open access explained! Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L5rVH1KGBCY (Accessed: 15 November 2016). Weller, M. (2013) ‘What sort of open do you want?’, The Ed Techie, 30 October. Available at: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2013/10/what-sort-of-open-do-you -want.html (Accessed: 15 November 2016).