Scientific literature is freely available to the public via the Internet in a form that can be accessed, read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, indexed, linked to the full text, transferred as data to software and used for any legal purpose, without financial, legal and technical barriers.
“Open Access” publications are digital, online, free and exempt from most copyright and license restrictions (permission barriers). These publications are made online and with the consent of the author or copyright holder.
In most fields of science, scientific journals do not pay authors, so authors can support open access without losing revenue; In this respect, scientists differ from most musicians and filmmakers. Therefore, discussions on open access for music and movies do not apply to the question of scholarly literature. Open access can fully overlap with the quality principle achieved through peer review, and all major open access initiatives for scientific publications emphasize the importance of the quality principle. Not only the authors of the articles, but also most journal editors and referees put forth their efforts for free.
Although open access publications can be produced at a much lower cost than traditional printed literature, they are not free in the sense that they are free to prepare. The question is not whether scientific publications can be produced without cost, but whether there are better ways of financing that do not charge readers and impose restrictions on access. For funding, which business models will be leveraged depends on how open access is allowed.
In this context, it is possible to reach very wide information environments.
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