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Peter Suber, the person who wrote the book on Open Access, provides this definition:
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. OA is compatible with copyright, peer review, revenue (even profit), print, preservation, prestige, quality, career-advancement, indexing, and other features and supportive services associated with conventional scholarly literature.
General information about Open Access; professional organizations; select institutional guides.
Open Access Overview. Peter Suber's introduction to open access. Suber is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge.
Open Access Week. An annual global event organized to raise awareness and support open access.
Sherpa/Juliet. Look up your funders' open access policies.
OASIS – Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook. OASIS aims to provide an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it.
Scholarly Open Access. Critical analysis of scholarly open access publishing.
OASPA Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. The mission of OASPA is to support and represent the interests of Open Access journal and book publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.
R2RC Right to Research Coalition. R2RC is an international graduate student coalition committed to open access to student research and scholarship.
Kansas University – Open Access
University of Washington – Scholarly Publishing & Open Access Issues