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There is now a strong tendency for free access to the various scientific publications. The Open publication, sometimes also called Open Access or Open Access Publication, aims to provide free online access to scientific articles - and sometimes books as well.
There are many reasons to get freed from scientific publishers' monopoly:
- Explosion of the cost of traditional periodics
- Ethical concern about access to publicly funded research results
- Expansion of the number of potential readers, thus increasing the impact of research
- Access to leading-edge scientific literature to researchers in less favored regions of the world
- The work of scientific peer review and editing is carried out by the researchers themselves, not by the publishers
University of Louvain wishes to develop its and to increase the number of Open Access publications.
It also encourages the development of (Gold and Partinium Open Access) by its members.
Open Publication at UClouvain, a short video :
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