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We recognize that a modern library should help editors find and use open access resources, because they are increasing in number and quality, and because they provide an optimal experience for readers of the encyclopedia when they try to access and verify the sources used on Wikipedia.
An open-access monograph (open-access book or OA book) is a scholarly publication usually made openly available online with an open license. [1] [2] These books are freely accessible to the public, typically via the internet. They are part of the open access movement. [3]
Over 1,200 (and growing) books published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, up to c. 2009, fully available to download as PDFs (though content is still copyrighted) from the Thomas J. Watson Library at the MMA. Exhibition and collection catalogues, many very large and well-illustrated, and much else.
It continued to do so until January 2013, when Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA) took over. The Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA) C.I.C. was founded in 2012 in the UK as a community interest company by open access advocates Caroline Sutton and Alma Swan. [12] It runs the DOAJ and, until 2017, the Open Citations Corpus.
The project is funded by the Open Science Institute, Jisc, the Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) and SPARC Europe. As of 2015, OpenDOAR and the UK-based Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) "are considered the Two leading open access directories worldwide. ROAR is the larger directory and allows direct submissions to the directory.
Tattered Cover is a bookstore chain in Denver, Colorado. It was one of the largest independent bookstores in the United States. Tattered Cover is open seven days a week at all branches, hosts prominent book signings, and is known for its customer service. Together, the stores maintain an inventory of over half a million books.
Open Book Publishers (OBP) is an open access academic book publisher based in the United Kingdom. It is a non-profit social enterprise and community interest company (CIC) that promotes open access for academic monographs , edited collections, critical editions and textbooks in the Humanities , Social Sciences , Mathematics and Science .
The number of open access journals increased by an estimated 500% during the 2000–2009 decade.Also, the average number of articles that were published per open access journal per year increased from approximately 20 to 40 during the same period, resulting in that the number of open access articles increased by 900% during that decade.