The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) defines Open Access as, "By Open Access, we mean the free, immediate, availability on the public Internet of those works which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment – permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose." (SPARC "Why Open Access?". Retrieved 2014 24 January).
You can find additional OA journals by searching the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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Go to our Open Access subject guide for more detailed information.
