When copyright holders consent to Open Access, what are they consenting to?
Usually they consent in advance to the unrestricted reading, downloading, copying, sharing, storing, printing, and searching of the full-text of the work. Users are invited to make use of the materials on the AHERO site, but are warned against misattribution (plagiarism) and distortion (mangled use of texts, misrepresentation). Commercial re-use of the work is forbidden without permission of the copyright holder. Essentially, these conditions authorise all the uses required by legitimate scholarship, including those required by the technologies that facilitate online scholarly research.
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