Open access is a set of principles and practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost either via an open access journal, open access book or inclusion in an institutional or disciplinary repository.
We support and promote Open Research and Open Data to enhance collaboration. We believe this results in a more vibrant, diverse and inclusive research culture that will ultimately translate into societal impact.
By Open Research, we mean its 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 for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Source: https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/
Open Data refers to making research data and content freely usable, modifiable, and sharable. Some data cannot be made open for cultural, ethical, legal, security or commercial reasons. For example, content that should be subject to Indigenous governance and control (in alignment with the CARE and FAIR principles).