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Open access: History & Science

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open…

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Open access topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Science as prominent areas in the source structure around Open access.

Related topics
227
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
237
Extracted relationships
364
Concept neighborhoods
65
Bridge connections
237

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 114 topics
By country · 25 topics
Infrastructure · 22 topics
Effects on scholarly publishing · 18 topics
Features · 17 topics
Definitions · 9 topics
Policies and mandates · 9 topics
History · 8 topics
Motivations · 4 topics
Inequality and open access · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Definitions

Features

Motivations

History

Effects on scholarly publishing

Infrastructure

Policies and mandates

Inequality and open access

By country

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Open access connects Entity context

The extracted context around Open access shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Open access → Academic Journal Publishing, Accessibility, All, Ann, Archived, Ars Technica, As, Association, Athena Unbound, Baldwin, Barbara, Be Free, Bibcode, Björk, Blog, Bo-Christer, Books, Bukvova, Cambridge, Citation Impact Another extracted example is Open access → Alma, CC BY, CC BY-SA, Crane, Crick, Davila, Enkhbayar, Havemann, IGO, Kramer, Licensed, Martin, Masuzzo, Nobes, Policy, Rice, Rivera-López BS, Ross-Hellauer, Sattler, Swan. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Open access

Top relations

related to Further reading · 124
Open access → Academic Journal Publishing, Accessibility, All, Ann, Archived, Ars Technica, As, Association, Athena Unbound, Baldwin, Barbara, Be Free, Bibcode, Björk, Blog, Bo-Christer, Books, Bukvova, Cambridge, Citation Impact
related to Sources · 26
Open access → Alma, CC BY, CC BY-SA, Crane, Crick, Davila, Enkhbayar, Havemann, IGO, Kramer, Licensed, Martin, Masuzzo, Nobes, Policy, Rice, Rivera-López BS, Ross-Hellauer, Sattler, Swan
related to External links · 17
Open access → Association, Information Science, Library, OA, OAD, OASPA, OCLC, Open Access Directory, Open Access Scholarly Publishing, Open Access Tracking Project, Peter Suber, Portal, Published, Robin Peek, Simmons School, UNESCO's Global Open Access, US
related to Funding · 17
Open access → Advantages, Annual Reviews, Another, BioMed Central, Frontiers, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, MDPI, One, Open, PLOS, Public Library, Reactions, Science, Since, Subscribe, The, There
related to Extent · 15
Open access → AHSCI, Another, As, Directory, European Commission, February, Gold Open Access, In, In August, Max Planck Society, Open Access Journals, SCI, Scopus, SSCI, Various
has impact · 14
Open access → DORA, In, International Mathematical Union, It, JIF, Journal, Leiden Manifesto, OA, Open, Plan, Research Assessment, San Francisco Declaration, Since, Some
related to Compliance · 11
Open access → As, Compliance, From March, Google Scholar, However, March, Open Access Repository Mandates, Policies, Registry, SWORD, Tools
related to Open irony · 11
Open access → Duncan Hull, Examples, In, Nature, Open, Open Access Irony, Science, The, The Lancet, This, Typically
related to Databases and repositories · 10
Open access → CC, DOAJ, In, Multiple, Openaccess, PMC, ResearchPreprints, The, There, These
related to FAIR · 10
Open access → A1, European Commission, FAIR, G20, Initially, March, Note, So, The, This

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

access open publishing journals research articles oa journal publishers academic authors published scholarly also gold citation may publication peer review

Open access relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 364 structured relationships around Open access. Examples in this analysis include Open access → is a → increasingly popular mandate by many educational institutions.In the US and subscriptions → instance of → which is still preferred by many readers of fiction.Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Open accessis aincreasingly popular mandate by many educational institutions.In the US0.90text
subscriptionsinstance ofwhich is still preferred by many readers of fiction.Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls0.80text
site licenses or pay-per-view chargesinstance ofwhich is still preferred by many readers of fiction.Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls0.80text
open-access journals are characterised by funding models which do not require the reader to pay to read the journal's contentsinstance ofwhich is still preferred by many readers of fiction.Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls0.80text
relying instead on author fees or on public fundinginstance ofwhich is still preferred by many readers of fiction.Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls0.80text
subsidiesinstance ofwhich is still preferred by many readers of fiction.Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls0.80text
sponsorshipsinstance ofwhich is still preferred by many readers of fiction.Whereas non-open access journals cover publishing costs through access tolls0.80text
a free license on the publisher-authored copyrightable portions of the printed version of an article.If the author posts the near-final version of their work after peer review by a journalinstance ofmay charge a fee for an additional service0.80text
the archived version is called ainstance ofmay charge a fee for an additional service0.80text
the sale of advertisementsinstance ofsuch publishers often require funding from external sources0.80text
academic institutionsinstance ofsuch publishers often require funding from external sources0.80text
learned societiesinstance ofsuch publishers often require funding from external sources0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Open access bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Open, Journals and Publishing. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Open access
    • Open
    • Journals
    • Publishing
    • Research
    • Articles
    • Journal
    • Scholarly
    • Also
    • Library
    • Gold
    • Academic
    • Scientific
  • open access
    • Open
    • Journals
    • Research
    • Publishing
    • Articles
    • Journal
    • Scholarly
    • Also
    • Library
    • Free
    • Gold
    • Scientific
  • open license
    • Journals
    • Publishing
    • Research
    • Articles
    • Journal
    • Scholarly
    • Also
    • Library
    • Gold
    • Academic
    • Scientific
    • Many
  • peer reviewers
    • Review
    • Journal
    • Citation
    • Publication
    • Preprint
    • Use
    • Publishing
    • May
    • Article
    • Research
    • Published
    • Authors
  • academic journal
    • Review
    • Publishing
    • Peer
    • Publication
    • Scholarly
    • May
    • Research
    • Journals
    • Open
    • Public
    • Use
    • Publisher
  • diamond open access
    • Open
    • Journals
    • Research
    • Publishing
    • Articles
    • Journal
    • Scholarly
    • Also
    • Library
    • Free
    • Gold
    • Scientific
  • journal articles
    • Published
    • Review
    • Journals
    • Publishing
    • Peer
    • Open
    • Oa
    • Authors
    • Gold
    • Publication
    • Scholarly
    • Public
  • directory of open access journals
    • Open
    • Journals
    • Articles
    • Research
    • Publishing
    • Oa
    • Authors
    • Gold
    • Journal
    • Scholarly
    • Peer
    • Also

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Open access, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Open access with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Open access — Overview · splits 123 ⟂ 115
Open access — By country · splits 212 ⟂ 26
Open access — Infrastructure · splits 215 ⟂ 23
Open access — Effects on scholarly publishing · splits 219 ⟂ 19
Open access — Features · splits 220 ⟂ 18
Open access — Definitions · splits 228 ⟂ 10
Open access — Policies and mandates · splits 228 ⟂ 10
Open access — History · splits 229 ⟂ 9
Open access — Motivations · splits 233 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Open access

Nodes238
Edges237
Triples364
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008403
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Open access to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Science, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Open access · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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