Open Access
By: Peter Suber
Series: MIT Press essential knowledge
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780262517638
Subjects: Open access publishing
Description: A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial.

In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Series Foreword; label: Preface; label: 1. What is open access?
pagenum: 1; label: 2. Motivation
pagenum: 29; label: 3. Varieties
pagenum: 49; label: 4. Policies
pagenum: 77; label: 5. Scope
pagenum: 97; label: 6. Copyright
pagenum: 125; label: 7. Economics
pagenum: 133; label: 8. Casualties
pagenum: 149; label: 9. Future
pagenum: 163; label: 10. Self-help
pagenum: 169; label: Glossary
pagenum: 175; label: Notes
pagenum: 177; label: Aditional Resources
pagenum: 219; label: Index
pagenum: 223