What Do We Really Mean by “Open”?
The terms open access (OA), open educational resources (OER), and open science get batted around a lot, but what does “open” really mean? Open access, according to SPARC, “is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.” The term was first used…
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