Open access day
Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Open Access encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society. October 14, 2008 will be the world’s first Open Access Day.
What is Open Access?
Open Access is the principle that publicly funded research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers put their weight behind it.
Public access
The current situation within scientific research is that publishers holds the copyright to the research once published, and the universities have to pay for access the very same research they have produced. Another issue is third world countries, not being able to subscribe to important journals from the industrial worlds. Hence, their own research is delayed substantially.
The Open Access philosophy was firmly articulated in 2002, when the Budapest Open Access Initiative was introduced. It quickly took root in the scientific and medical communities because it offered an alternative route to research literature that was frequently closed off behind costly subscription barriers.
UoA and Open Access
University of Agder has etablished AURA, which is the university's open archive containing scientific works in full text, as master's and doctoral theses and scientific articles.
List of international Open Access journals
University of Agderpost@uia.no
Phone: +47 38 14 10 00 Fax: +47 38 14 10 01
