So for example, in ONIX, the name of the author might look exactly the same as the author of a commercial book: 1 The nearest there is comes from the original Budapest Open Access Initiative: ‘By “open access” [ … ] we mean [ … ] free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them. [...] How do I provide a link to the OA Licence? While ‘open access’ is a neat headline, the exact permissions and constraints of a particular open licence are varied, and the requirements of licences (eg for attribution, or for similar licensing of derivative works) must be understood by those who make use of the content. [...] If the licence links are not exclusive to OA, how do I know that the book is open access? Is there a single ‘OA indicator’ field? There is a practical need to provide a pithy ‘this is open access’ headline or indicator – not in itself a legal statement (for that, you have the licence) or a detailed description of the exact type of OA, but simply a statement to highlight those items in a repository. [...] The statement might be displayed next to the book on a website, to highlight its OA status (and clicking on the statement could in principle link to the full licence, using the URL provided in ). [...] However, the ‘openness’ of a publication applies to the content of a book, not to the book itself (ie to the work, not to the manifestation), and thus does not preclude conventionally printed or print-on-demand OA publications.
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