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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suber, Peter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, ©2012.
Series:MIT Press essential knowledge
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary: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."--Pub. desc.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 242 pages).
ISBN:9780262301732
0262301733
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9286.001.0001