Open access (disambiguation)
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Open access usually refers to
and the related meanings:
It may also be used for:
- Open accessOpen accessOpen access refers to unrestricted access via the Internet to articles published in scholarly journals, and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs....
in publishing, access to material (mainly scholarly publications) via the Internet in such a way that the material is free for all to read, and to use (or reuse) to various extents
and the related meanings:
- Open access journalOpen access journalOpen access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.Subsidized journals...
, journals that give open access to all or a sizable part of their articles. - Open Access movement in academia
It may also be used for:
- OpenAccessOpenAccessOpenAccess is a community effort to provide interoperability, including unified data exchange among integrated circuit design tools through an open standard data API and reference database supporting that API for IC design...
, a common database initiative in electronic design automation - Open Access NetworkOpen Access NetworkAn open-access network refers to a horizontally layered network architecture in telecommunications, and the business model that separates the physical access to the network from the delivery of services. In an OAN, the owner or manager of the network does not supply services for the network; these...
, a horizontally layered network architecture and business model - Open Access Same-Time Information SystemOpen Access Same-Time Information SystemThe Open Access Same-Time Information System , is an Internet-based system for obtaining services related to electric power transmission in North America. It is the primary means by which high-voltage transmission lines are reserved for moving wholesale quantities of electricity...
, a policy for transmission service - Open access (infrastructure)Open Access (Infrastructure)In the context of infrastructure, open access involves physical infrastructure such as railways and physical telecommunications network plant being made available to clients other than the owners, for a fee....
such as railways. - Right of public access to the wildernessRight of public access to the wildernessThe freedom to roam, or everyman's right is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land for recreation and exercise...
, a legal right to travel through open countryside - Open CommunicationOpen CommunicationIn business, Open Communication can be a term used to describe a concept that anyone, on equal conditions with a transparent relation between cost and pricing, can get access to and share communication resources on one level to provide value added services on another level in a layered...
, open access to communications instrastructure and services - Investigational productInvestigational productAn investigational product is a pharmaceutical form of an active ingredient or placebo being tested or used as a reference in a clinical trial, including a product with a marketing authorization when used or assembled in a way different from the approved form, or when used for an unapproved...
open access to pharamceuticals under investigation. - Wireless community networkWireless community networkWireless community networks or wireless community projects are the organizations that attempt to take a grassroots approach to providing a viable alternative to municipal wireless networks for consumers....
- HospiceHospiceHospice is a type of care and a philosophy of care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms.In the United States and Canada:*Gentiva Health Services, national provider of hospice and home health services...
care (in the United States) extended without regard to continuance of life-sustaining treatments by the patient. - Open Access (UK television)Open Access (UK television)Open Access, Open Access 2 and Open Access 3 were a set of television channels based in the United Kingdom and broadcast on the Sky Digital satellite platform...
, a set of commercial television channels on the Sky satellite platform operated from the United Kingdom by Definition Broadcast Limited - Open Access to Oriya Books (http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/)