The free, immediate, permanent, and cost-free access to digital academic and scientific content via the Internet, with minimal copyright restrictions, is internationally known as Open Access.
Users may freely utilize the available material for research, educational, and other purposes.
Open Access literature is:
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digital,
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online,
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free of charge, and
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exempt from most copyright and licensing restrictions.
The key factors that make Open Access possible are:
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the Internet, and
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the consent of the author or the copyright holder.
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