Scholarly Communication

"Open Access (OA) is the free, immediate, unrestricted availability of high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship over the Internet - combines with the rights to use this information to its fullest possible extent." - www.righttoresearch.org

Journals can be more open or less open, but their degree of openness is intrinsically independent from their:

• Impact
• Prestige
• Quality of Peer Review
• Peer Review Methodology
• Sustainability
• Effects on Tenure

Source: HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Spectrum. 2013. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition and Public Library of Science.