This document discusses open access and its implications for scientific practice. It covers open access, open science, and open source models and how they are changing scientific practices through electronic research. It also addresses how science communication is moving online and the blurring of boundaries between public and private forums as well as formal and informal scholarly communication.

1. Open Access and Implications
for Scientific Practice
Ralph Schroeder Eric T. Meyer
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford

2. Overview
• Open Access, Open Science, Open Source
• Changing Scientific Practices: e-Research
• Social Science and the Changing Research
Landscape

3. Open Science, Open Access,
Open Source
• Open Science as public science (David), as mode
of communication (Fuchs), and
• Open Access as Publishing Model
• Open Access as Strategy and as Science Policy
• Open Source licensing and collaboration
• Open source models of innovation (Hope)