Open access is unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed scholarly research.

Open access may also refer to:

Computing, Internet and communication

  • OpenAccess, a common database initiative in electronic design automation
  • Open-access network, a horizontally layered network architecture and business model
  • Open Access Same-Time Information System, a policy for transmission service
  • Open communication, open access to communications infrastructure and services

Other uses

  • Open access (economics), non-excludable resources in economics
  • Open Access (UK and Ireland TV channels), a set of commercial television channels on the Sky satellite platform operated from the United Kingdom
  • Open access (infrastructure), access to infrastructure such as railways
  • Open-access operator, in rail transport
  • Open access, in the right of public access to the wilderness
  • Open access mission, synonymous for open admissions policies in higher education
  • Open access (publishing), journals that gives open access to its articles
  • An unjuried exhibition or festival
  • Fringe festival

See also

  • Access rights (disambiguation)
  • Open source (disambiguation)
  • Public access (disambiguation)