TY - BOOK AU - Suber,Peter Dain TI - Open access T2 - MIT Press essential knowledge series SN - 9780262517638 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - Z 286 S941o 2012 U1 - 070.5/7973 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Open access publishing KW - Publicación en acceso abierto N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-221) and index; What is open access? -- Motivation -- Varieties -- Policies -- Scope -- Copyright -- Economics -- Casualties -- Future -- Self-help N2 - In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers. --Publisher information ER -