OA is a trend. OA was proposed in the context of traditional model
being denounced. 34,000 researchers boycotted
their journals in joint names unless those journals agreed to provide Open
Access to their articles. They realized subscription and pay-per-view journals
will not only block communication among scientific research and development
community but also disadvantageous to disseminate knowledge they had found. In
recent decades, universities, libraries, institutes, publishers and other academic institutions are
converting into OA.
OA usually turn up in two patterns:
Open Access journals and Self-Archiving.
An Open Access journal is the same as
a traditional journal except it permits anyone to use, copy, and transfer the full
text of it. Self-Archiving is that publisher allows
you to place your article in a repository or place it on a personal server so
that users can have access to it online.
Oalib is a new feature of Open Access to
facilitate academic exchange. There would be thousands of Open Access articles
in hundreds of formats of over the world which reveals the difficulty in
gaining full access to all of them. On the basis of google engine and other
search engine, OA library is committed to gathering free of charge papers and
documents of high quality for scholars worldwide.(from www.oalib.net)
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