Your Librarian
Jill Howard
Contact:
Mansfield Library
MLIB 315
32 Campus Drive
jill.howard@umontana.edu
MLIB 315
32 Campus Drive
jill.howard@umontana.edu
406-243-6866
No Net Id? No problem!
You can use the library's resources without a NetId by searching for Open Access resources.
What is Open Access? Open Access (OA) scholarly literature is online, freely available (to readers), and free of most copyright restrictions (ideally).
The following graphic describes the key differences between conventional and OA publishing.
In short, the difference between conventionally published scholarship and OA scholarship is in how it is published, not in how it is produced and evaluated by researchers. OA scholarship is copyrighted and licensed in such a way that the content is available for free.
