"What Is Open Access (Subtitles)?" YouTube, uploaded by SHB Online, 10 October 2019, https://youtu.be/676JM1M_gFg.
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles combined with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.
Open Access publications are always free to read and are never restricted by paywalls or other access barriers.
Key Components of Open Access
Authors get to keep their copyright.
No embargo period — articles are available immediately upon publication.
Research data is shared with the article.
Adding a Creative Commons license (any license will do but CC-BY is preferred) allows for data and text mining.
Content for this section has been adapted from “Open Access to Scholarship” https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/6-1-open-access-to-scholarship/ by Creative Commons. CC BY 4.0.
