{"id":102027,"date":"2014-05-04T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008\/?guid=25a8a4b3f752a2963459ad8551911fe2"},"modified":"2014-05-04T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T23:56:08","slug":"uosm2008-topic-5-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-open-access-to-online-materials-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008\/2014\/topic-5-2014\/2014\/05\/uosm2008-topic-5-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-open-access-to-online-materials-122\/","title":{"rendered":"#UOSM2008 Topic 5: Advantages and Disadvantages of Open Access to Online Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Picture source<\/span><\/b>: <\/span>http:\/\/dirasathispanicas.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Note<\/span><\/i><\/b>: This post covers only the research archives as an example of content provider (because of the word limit). However, most of the pros and cons mentioned can be applied to other media types as well.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
We, students and academics, all had that moment when you search in Google on a specific topic, and the search engine returns you an article with quite an interesting abstract, and you think that:\u201d Here is the one!!\u201d. However, when you press the link it requires you to sign up and perform an online payment, and all your plans for going sleep earlier tonight just ruin and you need to start the search over again (as happened during my search for the current topic, see Picture 1<\/b>). The dilemma of whether to make the access to online materials open or closed nowadays have become a significant issue, which increases as the Internet expands. According to the study by <\/span>Simon-Kucher & Partners, 90% of online content will be held behind paywalls (Lepitak, 2013)<\/span><\/w:sdt>, and subsequently a question arises whether should the content producers make their content freely available? Below I will provide both advantages and disadvantage of the given issue:<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Note: \u201c<\/span><\/i><\/b>Open Access\u201d <\/span><\/i>(OA) is a term referred to articles without any restrictions posed by subscriptions (Bo-Christer et al., 2010)<\/span><\/w:sdt>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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