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"Open Access (OA) is a means of disseminating scholarly and scientific literature over the internet free of charge to researchers and to anyone else who might benefit from accessing the results of publicly funded research "
PLoS, SPARC and OASPA have collaborated to create a guide that identifies the core components of OA and how they are implemented across the spectrum between “Open Access” and “Closed Access”.
"Since its founding in 2000, PLOS rapidly evolved into a driving force in the open access (OA) movement, which seeks to make the results of all scholarly research accessible to everyone."
"in summary... Gold | open access publishing Green | can archive pre-print and post-print Blue | can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) Yellow | can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) White | archiving not formally supported..."
Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure. Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk. BMC Medicine 2012, 10:124 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-124
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