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Title
Open access
Category
courses
UUID
82f6888b9d384ea89c65578b5f18f065
Source URL
https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-access
Parent URL
https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-access/unsworks
Crawl Time
2026-03-10T04:32:52+00:00
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Open access

Source: https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-access Parent: https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/open-access/unsworks

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. Through licensing via an open licence (usually a Creative Commons License), freely available outputs can also be legally shared and reused. Therefore, open access is more than just free access.

The original definitions of open access were first proposed in Budapest in 2002, Berlin in 2003 and Bethesda in 2003.