The Open Access movement's main aim is to make research outputs available to all as quickly as possible. It is about not charging people to read published journal articles, which makes sense for outputs of publicly funded projects. Open Access is a product of the way in which online technologies are changing the possibilities for scholarly communication. It aims to change the scholarly communication model by altering the publishers’ traditional dissemination of scholarly works. There are currently four ways to make material Open Access.
The Open Access bibliography maintained by the Open Citation Project has lots of information and evidence about the beneficial impact of Open Access publishing on citations.
Open Access and Repositories
Repositories like roar can help ensure material is made Open Access by making it available in the full text with no barriers to access. Not all research output can be made openly accessible in roar however (due to copyright arrangements between authors and publishers) so there will be some records that relate to articles and theses which are closed access either for a sensitive period of time or permanently.
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