Richard Poynder
Richard Poynder - Freelance Journalist

Essays on Open Access

The Open Access (OA) Movement seeks to ensure the immediate, free and unrestricted online access to digital scholarly material, notably research articles published in refereed journals. The essays below on Open Access, and the Open Access Movement, were written by journalist Richard Poynder.

These essays are published on the blog Open and Shut? In some cases, the full-text is available as a downloadable PDF file. They have been published under a Creative Commons licence. This licence permits you to copy and distribute the interviews as you wish, so long as you credit Richard Poynder as the author, do not alter or transform the text, and do not use the interviews for any commercial purpose.

The essays:

More essays will follow. Please note that while these works are made freely available to all, they are written by a freelance journalist who makes his living from writing. To assist him to continue making work available in this way you are invited to make a voluntary contribution. The suggested figure is $10 per essay, but feel free to contribute as you think appropriate. This can be done quite simply by sending a payment via PayPal quoting the email address richard.poynder@btinternet.com. It is not necessary to have a PayPal account to make a payment.

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