Oalib as to Open Access movement

The open access movement started in the 1990s when internet was popular and new technology of computer robustly developed so that online publication became trend. Researchers and scientists were not content with publishers who published their papers but required payment for reading or benefited from subscription.

There are several stages:
Development of open access journals: The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009
Statements about open access: the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Feb. 14, 2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (Apr. 11, 2003), theBerlin Declaration on Open Access (Oct. 22, 2003), Public Library of Science (PLoS) (founded in 2000), and Creative Commons (founded in 2001)
Development of open archives: Open Archives Initiative (started in October 1999)
Adoption of open access policies (starting in 2003): ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies

Recently Open Access principles are gaining momentum with a new White House policy aimed at making taxpayer-funded research freely available and the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who worked to make such information free.

Oalib is in line with Open Access supporters, and in practice to make Scholarly Communication convenient for people, which offers more than 260,000 full text downloads of open access articles to be available online. www.oalib.com