The open access movement has gained momentum since the Budapest Open Access
Initiative (BOAI) first launched twenty years ago. Notably, there has been a drastic increase …

In the five years since the launch of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002,
one of the most striking developments in the scholarly communications landscape has been …

Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. While this mission has been the
same for centuries, the way it is delivered is constantly evolving. Over the last two decades …

In the context of a growing international focus on open access publishing options and
mandates, this paper explores the extent to which the ideals of 'openness' are also being …

Open access has been the pivotal change in relations between libraries and academic
publishers in the last decade. Not only has it introduced a potentially disruptive business …

The authors ask how far the open access movement has come in meeting its initial goal of
making scholarly research freely available to all potential users immediately upon …

At present, about 20% of the scientific publications worldwide are freely (open-access)
available (Björk, Welling, Laakso, Majlender, Hedlund, & Guðnason, 2010) and this …

The library and information science (LIS) community has an active role in supporting access
to information and, therefore, is an important stakeholder in the open access conversation …

Perhaps the most important theme to emerge was the shared vision that many of the
speakers presented of open access as an integral part of the infrastructure supporting …

Open access, one of the most important of the potentials unleashed by the combination of
the electronic medium and the World Wide Web, is already much more substantial in extent …