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Reviews in Medical Ethics: “Open Access,” Legal Publishing, and Online Repositories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Pamela Bluh
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The Open Access Movement maintains that all scientific and scholarly literature should be available to all for free via the Internet. This concept is not new. Some scholars trace its roots as far back as 1963 when “hypertext” was first introduced. Although the Open Access Movement may have originated more than fifty years ago, it has been fueled by more recent events, including the unremitting escalation of journal subscription prices over the last two decades, resulting in massive cancellations of journals by academic libraries; the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and the parallel explosion of electronic resources; and the desire of authors to find a new publishing model which continues to offer the benefits of peer review while providing for more rapid publication and wide-spread distribution than the current labor-intensive, time-consuming model.

The Open Access Movement has resulted in a number of online repositories devoted to legal analysis and policy. This column explores the genesis of the movement, its value to researchers and policymakers, and provides an overview of the two principal open access products in the legal arena.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , Spring 2006 , pp. 126 - 130
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2006

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