Open Access and More
Special Issue on Open Access
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Journal of Scholarly Publishing Special Issuethe Journal of Scholarly Publishing has published a special issue on Open Access
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What is Open Access
Open access is a broad international movement that seeks to grant free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. A publication is defined 'open access' when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it - that is to say when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it in education or in any other way within the legal agreements.
Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries).
Open Educational Resources
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Open Educational ResourcesPlease visit our research guide for OER
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State of NJ Act on OERsThis Act requires institutions of higher education to develop open textbooks
available to students at no charge and requires buyback of used textbooks at 50% of purchase price.
Free movie about open access to scholarship
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Paywall: the business of scholarshipPaywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.
