 What is the relationship between conventional publishing and open access?
Shifting from isolated computers to a globe-spanning network of connected computers suddenly allows us to share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at essentially no cost. Open access is the name of the revolutionary kind of access these authors, unencumbered by a motive of financial gain, are free to provide to their readers. Copyright can also be a significant access barrier. 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. But at the same time, all three allow at least one limit on user freedom: an obligation to attribute the work to the author. Second, scholarly journals generally don’t pay authors for their research articles, which frees this special tribe of authors to consent to OA without losing revenue. This peculiar custom does more than insulate cutting-edge research from the market and free scholars to consent to OA without losing revenue. It frees researchers to challenge conventional wisdom and defend unpopular ideas, which are essential to academic freedom. Creative people who live by royalties, such as novelists, musicians, and moviemakers, may consider this scholarly tradition a burden and sacrifice for scholars.
 Many people interact with both, and each side is adapting over time to the needs of the readers and authors
 They tend to attract scholars of different disciplines, staying separate from one another  Conventional publishing is better for authors but open access is better for the readers  Many people interact with both, and each side is adapting over time to the needs of the readers and authors  Venues pick one or the other option and are classified as such