Wikipedia:WikiProject Open/Open access task force/Wikimedia at OAI8/Reuse of Open Access materials on Wikimedia platforms/Signalling OA-ness

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By "open access" to this literature, we mean its 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.
 * BOAI Definition of Open Access


 * SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals
 * Open access
 * Subscription required
 * Closed access
 * Examples:
 * Another paper
 * Yet another paper
 * Yet another paper


 * routinely used in the Wikimedia Research Newsletter