Abstract :
The potential changes in policies and increased open access to scholarly, scientific, technical, and other information could well spawn a revolution in research and education, the likes of which this world has never seen. First, second- and third-world countries could have universal access to a huge amount of high-quality, yet free, life-changing information. This article describes what is open access, the influence of open access, open access copyright, importance of open access for researchers, the role of library, and will libraries really benefit.
