id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-3039 Porter, Cynthia Editorial Board Thoughts: Is Open Access the Answer? 2011-03-01 1 .pdf application/pdf 845 38 56 I like the definition provided by EnablingOpenScholarship: Open Access is the immediate (upon or before publica- tion), online, free availability of research outputs with- out any of the restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements.1 My focus on OA journals increased precipitously when the licensing for a popular American weekly medi- cal journal changed. The number of OA journals is increasing, and I believe we will continue to see that the articles are reach- ing readers and making a difference. cache/ital-3039.pdf txt/ital-3039.txt