Words similar to open-access

Example sentences for: open-access

How can you use “open-access” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Increasingly, I have students sending me PDF files of open-access journal articles they have read and want to share with me.
By charging authors a fee to have their work published in lieu of charging readers to access articles, open-access publishers such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and BioMed Central (BMC) have transformed the traditional publishing system.
Our open-access license allows free distribution of articles, so PLoS cannot benefit from exclusive reprint sales.
However, if a truly competitive market is created—where payments are directed to publishers not by third parties but by those directly involved in the scientific enterprise, who could easily compare the varying article processing charges of different open-access publishers—then the actual savings might well be substantially higher.
Many societies articulate in their mission statements the goal of communicating the benefits of their members' discoveries with the public—and open-access publishing is a direct means to accomplish this goal.