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The most widely accepted and influential definition of open access integrates statements passed by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003), and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Science and Humanities (2003). Together, they are referred to as the BBB Definition of open access, which stipulates provision of access to information without financial, legal, or technical barriers.
Open access content can be made available through self-submission to open access repositories (green open access) or through open access journals (diamond and gold open access).
Suber, Peter. (2012). Open access. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9286.001.0001
From the publisher's website: 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.
Rubow, Lexi, et al. (2015). Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible. Authors Alliance.
From the website: Our goal is to encourage our members to consider open access publishing by addressing common questions and concerns and by providing real-life strategies and tools that authors can use to work with publishers, institutions, and funders to make their works more widely accessible to all.
ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (2024, August 27). Scholarly Communications Toolkit. Association of College & Research Libraries.
From the LibGuide: The ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit was initially launched in 2005 by the ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (formerly the Scholarly Communication Committee) to support advocacy efforts designed to transform the scholarly communication landscape.