The Open Access Initiative in Access to Technical and Scientific Information in Health Sciences

Authors

  • Javier Sanz Valero Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Enfermagem Comunitária, Medicina Preventiva e Saúde Pública e História da Ciência, Alicante, Espanha
  • Jorge Veiga de Cabo Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Escuela Nacional de Medicina del Trabajo, Madrid, Espanha
  • Luis David Castiel Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Departamento de Epidemiologia e Métodos Quantitativos em Saúde, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v1i1.876

Keywords:

Open access, access to information, information recovery, internet, document

Abstract

The Open Access Initiative (OAI) relates to documents published electronically, and allows free and unrestricted access to the full text of scientific and research literature via the Internet. This assumes the free use of scientific information, as long as its authorship is recognized. The three main statements about the OAI are contained in the declarations of Budapest (2002), Bethesda (2003) and Berlin (2003). Open access is compatible with copyright, copyleft, peer review, printing, preservation and other characteristics associated with conventional academic literature. The most relevant difference consists in the fact that readers are not charged for access to the information, and therefore there are no barriers to research. Even so, the success of the OAI does not depend only on the availability of documents, but also on the support of the scientific community.

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Published

2007-01-31

How to Cite

Valero, J. S., de Cabo, J. V., & Castiel, L. D. (2007). The Open Access Initiative in Access to Technical and Scientific Information in Health Sciences. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v1i1.876

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2007)

Section

Original articles

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