Open Access
Open access is a publication model, an alternative to traditional dissemination of scientific knowledge through toll-access scientific journals. Its principle is an unlimited online access to scientific information provided by self archiving of articles in open repositories or publishing in open journals.
Open access principles statements
- Budapest Open Access Initiative (February 2002)
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (June 2003)
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (October 2003)
- LERU Statement (October 2015)
The benefits of open access
- An acceleration of scientific information interchange
- Extension of scientific information availability
- Increase in the visibility of scientific information
- Increase in the number of readers
- Increase in citation impact