Open Access to Scholarship

Open Access to Scholarship: An Interview with Ray English | Academic Commons

Open access is online access to scholarly research that’s free of any charge to libraries or to end-users, and also free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In other words, it’s scholarly research that is openly available on the Internet. Open access primarily relates to the scholarly research journal literature--works that have no royalties and that authors freely give away for publication without any expectation of monetary reward.