الوصول الحر للمعلومات : طريق المستقبل في الأرشفة و النشر العلمي

Abstract EN

Open access movement to information is a remarkably contemporary development in scholarly communication.

Many factors brought this movement to life: open standards technology, scientific publishing institutions, information service organizations, libraries, research financing agencies, researchers, and users.

The movement derives numerous benefits to all above.

There are two approaches to open access : publishing in scholarly journals and archiving in digital repositories classified according to subject or institution.

They are different, yet, they target open access to scholarly literature at the end.

Many are indicators show that open access to archiving and scientific publishing would thrive in future.