open access

English

Noun

open access (uncountable)

  1. A set of principles and practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.
    Synonym: (initialism) OA
    • 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
      The amenities of the institute include a well-arranged open-access library of 18,000 volumes, and a small but valuable reference library of railway literature; the present writer is Librarian.

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