Open Access as a Factor of Enhancing of the Global Information Flow

AbstractThe paper reveals the historical process of the emergence of the phenomenon of Open Access. An attempt was made to por- tray the key definitions and types of the open access. Detailed rules of Open Access to scientific journals were presented, i.e. the provision of comprehensive issues and partial resources of texts with the technical benchmarks necessary for the functioning of the journal in accordance with the principles of the Berlin Declaration. Two strategies are presented in the paper: (1) green, based on institutional data bases (libraries and/or digital archives), and (2) gold, referring to full open peer-reviewed journals, with the indication of channels and tools of scientific communication.Models of Open Science licences are also presented, related to the principles of Open Access, i.e. open standards and open li- cences. The admissible by the current legislation licences for individual articles are also presented, based on the principles of Creative Commons, along with the citation rules of the components of open scientific journals. For example, the Przestrzeń Społeczna/Social Space journal includes a procedure of the creation of an open journal, along with possible ways of financing of this type of publication. The presentation is concluded with the main determinants of Open Access and the perspective of the ex- istence of open content in the Internet now and in the future, using meta-search engines and meta- aggregators of the scientific content