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Global open access Initiatives that promote free access to scholarly publications over the Internet:

• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is a global coalition with a goal to promote open access.

• Plan S is an initiative for Open Access publishing supported by a group of national research funding organizations.

• Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges (ESAC) aggregates information on OA market from the major publishers to show the development of OA publishing.

• Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP) is an international registry showing the growth of OA mandates by funders and universities.

Creative Commons

Research Data Management

ORCID

Open access (OA) is a scholarly publishing model that makes research information immediately available to anyone free of charge. The OA model removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions) from access, dissemination and reuse of information (Peter Suber).

Scholars are increasingly in favor of open access publishing for various reasons:

• Wider readership: General public and professionals who do not have access to journals behind a paywall can also acquire the research ideas.

• Increased research impact: OA articles are cited more often than other articles behind a paywall because of their free and readily accessible nature.

• Accelerated scientific advancement: OA articles are shared widely and globally on the internet so that their ideas can be immediately built upon by other academicians.

• Compliance with funder policy: Funders are more often to mandate their funded research projects to be published in OA journals, books or deposited in repositories.

Source: Danny Kingsley and Sarah Brown via Australian Open Access Strategy Group