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  2. Access to Knowledge movement - Wikipedia

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    The Access to Knowledge (A2K) movement is a loose collection of civil society groups, governments, and individuals converging on the idea that access to knowledge should be linked to fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development.

  3. The Open Definition - Wikipedia

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    The Open Definition (formerly Open Knowledge Definition) [1] is published by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) to define openness for any type of data, content, or other knowledge. The definition's stated purpose is to "[make] precise the meaning of ‘open’ with respect to knowledge". [ 2 ]

  4. Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the ...

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    Acknowledging the increasing importance of the internet and the previous discussions on the need for open access, it offered the following definition of an open access contribution: Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions: The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide ...

  5. Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing - Wikipedia

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    On 11 April 2003, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute held a meeting for 24 people to discuss better access to scholarly literature. [1] The group made a definition of an open access publication as one which grants a "free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative ...

  6. Open access - Wikipedia

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    Open access helps researchers as readers by opening up access to articles that their libraries do not subscribe to. All researchers benefit from open access as no library can afford to subscribe to every scientific journal and most can only afford a small fraction of them – this is known as the "serials crisis". [129]

  7. Gratis versus libre - Wikipedia

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    In order to reflect real-world differences in the degree of open access, the distinction between gratis open access and libre open access was added in 2006 by Peter Suber and Stevan Harnad, two of the co-drafters of the original Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access publishing. [4] Gratis open access refers to online access ...

  8. History of open access - Wikipedia

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    The term "open access" itself was first formulated in three public statements in the 2000s: the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002, the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing in June 2003, and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in October 2003, [2] and the initial concept of ...

  9. Information access - Wikipedia

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    Information access is the freedom or ability to identify, obtain and make use of database or information effectively. [ 1 ] There are various research efforts in information access for which the objective is to simplify and make it more effective for human users to access and further process large and unwieldy amounts of data and information .