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Open Access is a movement that works for the free online availability of research materials. As one of the best short introductions to the subject explains....On Open Enterprise blog.

The (open) social calendar is getting full; first the World Day Against Software Patents, and now the Open Access Day: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded research, Open Access Day will create a key opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.