Get to Know Open Access

As a student in ALES-204, the communication class, I got a opportunity to get to know the "Open Access", which is a topic I would not to study about it on purpose.

By research, I got the idea that Open Access promotes to attain free peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet regardless of the copyright and licensing restrictions. Actually, we are using many kinds of open access as a resource almost everyday, especially we need to use Internet to get the information. One of the most popular one should be Wikipedia, Google  and the one for Chinese, Baidu. Those are the common open access that we usually use to get all kinds of information, it is more convenient than reading books or newspaper. 


However, during the research, besides the benefits,  I found there are conflicts. One is because the resource from OP is free, so that many writer and publisher lost profits.  Another one is that the accuracy  of information is important, there should be some institutions to make sure people can get the correct resource. It is interesting for me because I never realize those points before even I use Internet everyday. 


Another interesting thing I found that in China, government have build related program to make peer review the resource and make sure the accuracy. Meanwhile, there are existing some rules about using the OP properly.


Based on those information, I finished my scientific essay for ALES-204. Whatever the mark I got, the more important thing is that I know better about this field, which is much useful for me.