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This page has been created by the Europeana Copyright Community Steering Group. Use it to understand more about the concept of ‘open’, which plays a key role in digital cultural heritage, but has many dimensions. |
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What does ‘open’ mean in a general sense?
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The term ‘open access’ has a specific context compared to other movements. Originally, the idea of Open Access (OA) as conceived by the 2002 Budapest Declaration and the Berlin and 2003 Bethesda Declarations, which referred to:
[T]he free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Thus, originally ‘open access’, in its definition, involved free reuse.
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