Hello,

I will be answering some questions regarding Open Access (OA) in an activity organized in my School and I am planning to say that Open Access articles are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Is that definition really correct? In particular I would like you to be sure about the meaning of "permanently" in the OA context.

Have you come across to a case where an article that was initially published as Open Access (OA) but which later became a non-OA article?

I mean, can an OA article become a subscription article?

And if yes, under which reasonable circumstances would happen that?

Thank you!

Santiago

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Dr. Santiago Chumbe
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot Watt University
Edinburgh
EH14 4AS
UK
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