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Everything about Open access
Unrestricted availability of scholarly publications
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, or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright, which regulates post-publication uses of the work. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Open accessA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profilesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old AgeCited 13,186 times
- Go sideways: PreprintA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Open peer reviewA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A set of principles and practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.
Noun Public access to infrastructure, such as railways.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
Open-access bacterial population genomics: BIGSdb software, the PubMLST.org website and their applications
When Is Open Access Not Open Access?
Open Access — Open Media
Open access gastroscopy. Open access means overinvestigation.
Open Access or access the open only?
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🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsJ. K. Rowling · 1998
The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger, Shao jia yun · 1945
IBM PC ApprenticeInc. Wordware Pub., Leonard Paul Kubiak · 1984- 📕Open Access in Theory and PracticeStephen Pinfield, Simon Wakeling · 2020
Penetration tester's open source toolkitJeremy Faircloth · 2006
Knowledge MachinesEric T. Meyer, Ralph Schroeder · 2015
Legitimacy of Modern DemocracyPedro T. Magalhães · 2020- 📕Open Science by DesignNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs · 2018
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Preprint In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed…
- Open peer review Open peer review is the various possible modifications of the traditional scholarly peer review process. The three most common modifications to which the…
- PubMed Central PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life…
- PeerJ PeerJ is both a for profit, open access, and peer-reviewed scientific mega journal covering research in the biological and medical sciences and the publisher…
- List of academic publishers by preprint policy This is a list of publishers of academic journals by their submission policies regarding the use of preprints prior to publication (example list). Publishers'…
- Self-archiving Self-archiving is the act of (the author's) depositing a free copy of an electronic document online in order to provide open access to it. The term usually…
- Article processing charge An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors. Most commonly, it is involved in making…
- Predatory publishing Predatory publishing, also known as write-only publishing or deceptive publishing, is the usage of exploitative and fraudulent publishing models by academic…