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Byline: Tracey Caldwell

When is open access really open access?

Tracey Caldwell

Some forms of open access are, it seems, more open than others, with a an American Scientist Open Access Forum debate ending with a consensus that a number of open access (OA) models exist.

Peter Murray-Rust, of the Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics at Cambridge University, said that where information in scientific papers was openly accessible but the papers themselves were the copyright of the publisher, "this is absolutely not open access according to the Budapest Open Access Initiative [BOAI]".

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