What Open Access is

Open Access provides free and unrestricted access to qualified scientific publications in the internet and guarantees long-term archiving.

Publishing according to the Open Access modell guarantees the authors the right to retain copyrights to their works, an from faster publication and lower production and distribution cost, it allows wider accessibility and greater citation impact through world wide access.

What Open Access is not

Open Access is not self-publishing, nor a way to bypass peer-review and publication, nor is it a kind of second-class, cut-price publishing route. It is simply a means to make research results freely available online to the whole research community.
   • Misleading myths about Open Access

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