Open Access Remodeling Scholarly Communication
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2006-02-02
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INFLIBNET Center
Abstract
Open Access is being increasingly projected as a solution to the crisis in access to scholarly
research triggered by the high cost of periodical publications. This paper sets the movement
against the backdrop of factors that contributed to the OA, examines the major solutions
practiced and proposed to overcome the barriers to access scholarly research. The paper
also highlights some of the issues that are being raised which need to be addressed