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In a world where the internet has increasing global reach, Open Access publishing, a model operating on the principle that published works are free of charge to download, print and use for anybody, anywhere in the world, has the potential to change a lot about the way that people access and distribute knowledge. This has especially far-reaching implications in science, technology and medicine since researchers will be able to share their findings with colleagues all around the world regardless of their ability to pay for scholarly literature and travel costs.
A new website launched this week, InTechOpen.com, enables anyone with internet access to download, free of charge, more than 200 books and a number of journals in areas ranging from medical robotics to e-learning. InTech, founded in 2004 by Aleksandar Lazinica and Vedran Kordic, both researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, initially published books and journals targeted at the robotics community, since this was their own central area of interest.
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InTech's catalogue of free books and journals is growing at a rapid rate, as is the number of downloads, which in 2009 reached more than one million per year.
To download any of InTech's publications, please visit www.intechopen.com.
ABOUT INTECH
InTech is an Open Access publisher of journals and books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. InTechOpen is an Open Access reading platform for InTech publications, a space where all users can read, share and download more than 200 books and 8,000 book chapters. All content at InTechOpen is distributed under the Open Access label and under the Creative Commons license - freely accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Source: PRWeb
