"What is Open Access" by SHB Online is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Open Access (OA) is important because it helps make scholarly content freely available to everyone. It brings this content out from behind copyright barriers and publisher paywalls. It supports the basic goals of the research and teaching enterprise: sharing, creating, and advancing knowledge.
OA leads to increased visibility of your work, increased citation rates, the potential to drive innovation and global impact, improved public access, and compliance with many funder mandates.
OA also helps fix what many describe as a "broken" system of scholarly communication, where:
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