Open Access is a huge area of research and practice in information management. As the words suggest, this area deals with making resources available and easily accessible to everyone who wants them. It is all about unrestricted access.
Most of the open access efforts reside in academia which is where these initiatives began in 2001 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access). Since then, the Open Access initiative has matured.
Good Reads on Open Access Repositories
- There is an international conference on Open Access Repositories every mid-June.
https://www.openrepositories.org/ - Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has a searchable list of 19K+ academic journals and articles here:
https://doaj.org/ - Smithsonian Open Access is a free, downloadable image bank with millions of items you can use.
https://www.si.edu/openaccess - Open Society Foundations has a nice page on Open Access here – https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/what-open-access
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