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Open access

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

Nodes238
Edges237
Triples364
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008403
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Open access

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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

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

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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

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