Open access: Opening the Science
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Open access databases, archives, repositories are hopefully present, for almost a decade, in technology, education, science, and the iron gates systems are slowly behind us; we can say that the technology, science, and academia are striving to be more and more open.
There is an international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked archives, libraries, online databases, information flow in general, that once hid and restricted knowledge.
One of the definitions of ‘open’ denotes ‘a piece of knowledge is open if you re free to use, reuse, and redistribute it.
Open Access is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles.
Open Access is also increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters.
Open Access comes in two degrees: Gratis Open Access is no-cost online access, while Libre Open Access is Gratis Open Access
plus some additional usage rights.
Open content is similar to Open Acces, but usually includes the right to modify the work, where as in scholarly publishing it is
usual to keep an article’s content intact and to associate it with a fixed author or fixed group of authors. Creative Commons
licenses can be used to specify usage rights. The Open Access idea can also be extended to the learning objects and resources
provided in e-learning.
OMICS Group Inc. is one of the Open aceess publisher which provides journals in the form of Open Access.