 What is the relationship between conventional publishing and open access?
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. 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. It frees researchers to challenge conventional wisdom and defend unpopular ideas, which are essential to academic freedom.
 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