It’s Open Access Week!
What’s Open Access? I’m so glad you asked! Open Access, or OA, is a publishing model in which information is free to the reader. OA publishing proponents seek to remove the barriers to the distribution of research, allowing scholars to more efficiently build upon each other’s work and providing increased access to scholarship for researchers in non-traditional settings.
The Open Access movement inspires much conversation and debate. It encourages us to question and examine current practices and traditions in higher education, from scholarly publishing models to tenure review and promotion.
- To read more about OA, please check out our guide at http://libguides.vassar.edu/openaccess.
- To learn about Open Access week, visit http://www.openaccessweek.org/.
“‘Open Access’ to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.” – http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about