Comments on: NGA Images Database launches (with Open Access Policy) http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2012/03/17/nga-images-database-launches-with-open-access-policy/ by Joyce Valenza Sun, 19 May 2013 15:43:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: open access http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2012/03/17/nga-images-database-launches-with-open-access-policy/#comment-166316 open access Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:34:16 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/?p=6656#comment-166316 Open Access is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles. Open Access is also increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters. Open Access comes in two degrees: Gratis Open Access is no-cost online access, while Libre Open Access is Gratis Open Access plus some additional usage rights. Open content is similar to Open Acces, but usually includes the right to modify the work, where as in scholarly publishing it is usual to keep an article's content intact and to associate it with a fixed author or fixed group of authors. Creative Commons licenses can be used to specify usage rights. The Open Access idea can also be extended to the learning objects and resources provided in e-learning. OMICS Group Inc. is one of the Open aceess publisher which provides journals in the form of Open Access. Open Access is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles.

Open Access is also increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters.

Open Access comes in two degrees: Gratis Open Access is no-cost online access, while Libre Open Access is Gratis Open Access

plus some additional usage rights.

Open content is similar to Open Acces, but usually includes the right to modify the work, where as in scholarly publishing it is

usual to keep an article’s content intact and to associate it with a fixed author or fixed group of authors. Creative Commons

licenses can be used to specify usage rights. The Open Access idea can also be extended to the learning objects and resources

provided in e-learning.

OMICS Group Inc. is one of the Open aceess publisher which provides journals in the form of Open Access.

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