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The Journal of Information Literacy ( JIL) is an open access title and authors retain copyright in their articles. However, we require all our authors to agree, when they submit their article, to a licence agreement to allow us to publish their work.JIL is an Open Access Journal and therefore provides open access to its literature.
Here is the definition of "open access" from the BOAI: "By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited." from the Budapest Open Archives Initiative.