Dans ce livre court, Peter Suber explique ce qu'est l'accès ouvert et ce qu'il n'est pas, ses avantages pour les auteurs et leurs lecteurs, la manière de le financer, sa compatibilité avec le droit d'auteur, la façon dont le mouvement pour l'accès ouvert est passé d'un mouvement confidentiel à un mouvement global, et enfin ses perspectives d'avenir. Basé sur les recherches et les écrits de l'auteur pendant une dizaine d'années, ce livre s'avère un outil indispensable pour les chercheurs, l...

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.The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by t...

Influential writings make the case for open access to research, explore its implications, and document the early struggles and successes of the open access movement.Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, “it was like an asteroid...

The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller's classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the case by five Supreme Court Judges

The SciELO Program was created in the late 1990s when the idea of free access to scholarly content began to gain momentum, even before the term "open access" had been coined. At that time, access to academic publications was limited and costly, restricted to university libraries and the collections they subscribed to. With the emergence of the World Wide Web, electronic access to academic information became practically possible, allowing for wider and faster dissemination of scientific pub...

O Programa SciELO foi criado no final da década de 1990, quando a ideia do acesso livre ao conteúdo acadêmico começou a ganhar força, antes mesmo que o termo “acesso aberto” tivesse sido cunhado. Naquela época, o acesso a publicações acadêmicas era limitado e dispendioso, restrito às bibliotecas universitárias e às coleções que elas assinavam. Com o surgimento da World Wide Web, o acesso eletrônico à informação acadêmica se tornou viável, permitindo uma disseminação mais ampla e rápida das...

El Programa SciELO fue creado a finales de la década de 1990, cuando la idea de acceso gratuito a contenidos académicos comenzó a ganar impulso, incluso antes de que se acuñara el término "acceso abierto". En aquel momento, el acceso a las publicaciones académicas era limitado y costoso, restringido a las bibliotecas universitarias y a las colecciones a las que estaban suscritas. Con la aparición de la World Wide Web, el acceso electrónico a la información académica se hizo prácticamente p...