Open Access

Open Access is an important corner stone of Open Science and has a long history. Growing out of the journal crises, the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) formulated as early as 2002 that results of scientific work published in peer-reviewed journals should be made available "... completely free and [with] unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds ..."

In addition, "...users [should be permitted] to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers..." (from the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) Declaration)

The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities also underlines this demand, aiming at much more than just the final product of research (scientific papers). Read more here.

Open Access Strategies

No matter if gold, green or hybrid. Here you will learn about the different roads of Open Access. More...