Abstract
Open access (OA) is a concept that in recent years has acquired popularity and widespread recognition. International statements and scholarly analysis converge on the following main characteristics of open access: free availability on the public Internet, permission for any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, and use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself. The only legal constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Highlights
Open AccessOpen access (OA) is a concept that in recent years has acquired popularity and widespread recognition.[2]
This is fundamental, since terminology closely associated with OA has been misused to describe publication models that share nothing with the motives underpinning the OA movement.[5]
Agreements like the latter do not comply with the aforementioned definitions of OA and ought not be characterized as open access
Summary
Open access (OA) is a concept that in recent years has acquired popularity and widespread recognition.[2]. Some recent literature[10] has offered evidence that hybrid OA does not generate the same benefits in terms of widespread distribution that OA journals do, supporting the conclusion that the socio-economic dynamics behind this type of business model do not adhere to OA principles
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