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Open Access

Open access is a means of taking advantage of the global reach and relative inexpense of internet publishing to make peer-reviewed scholarly content freely available.

What is Open Access? [8:23]

Open Access (OA) is the free, immediate, online availability of publications, coupled with the rights to use these publications fully in the digital environment. - SPARC 

What is broken in academic publishing?

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