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Basic information on Open Access

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What does Open Access mean?

Open Access refers to free and permanent access to academic and scientific information on the internet. For further information on Open Access can be found here: open-access.network.

Different routes to Open Access

There are several options available for your open access publication and free access to your publications:

HSU participates in open access transformation initiatives and finances your open access publication. For more information, see our pages on funding open access publications.

Benefits of Open Access

  • Open access: Research findings are made accessible to everyone all over the world without financial, legal and technical barriers; fast and free of charge.
  • Impact Factor: Research findings are made accessible to everyone all over the world without financial, legal and technical barriers; fast and free of charge.
  • Transfer: Open access publishing facilitates interdisciplinary and international cooperation, access to information and research transfer.

 

  • Re-use: You will retain all user rights to your scholarly work. You specify the re-use rights, for example via Creative Commons licences.
  • Transparency: Automated technological processes make it easier to detect attempts at plagiarism.

 

Source: changed to Brinken, H. (2021). '10 Gründe für Open Access. Zenodo.' https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4643859
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