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6 J. Open Access L. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/jopacc6 and id is 1 raw text is: Theories of Open Access Kunle Ola' Melbourne Campus of the Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.2 Abstract. This article is an acknowledgement of the gap and frustrations created by a legal regime, which has provided the requisite legal covering for the exclusion of the generality from access to knowledge. It provides a theoretical analysis of open access from a multi-dimensional perspective inclusive of socio-economic, legal and political dimensions and explores the rationale for providing free, immediate, open and unrestricted access to the output of research. It seeks to identify and demonstrate the potential benefits of the open access movement to national and global development. Keywords: Open Access, Internet, Knowledge, Copyright, Ubuntu & Law. 1. Introduction The provision of access to knowledge through the platform of the internet and the cooperation of scholars can be conceived as a legal revolution against the current legal structure restricting access to knowledge. This revolution is not about merely putting any material up online, it is not vanity publishing, it does not honour fragrant disregard for the legal system, rather it is a revolution working within legitimate rules against structures that have permitted and enabled business models which erects and facilitates legal, price and technical restrictions against users. This dynamic revolution is built essentially on a shift from egocentrism and self-centredness that has become the norm in the society and is re- engineering a sharing structure that would bring about a balanced knowledge society. Open access is about a revolutionary change in how peer-reviewed literature and all other information is accessed, used, reused and generally exploited3. It seeks a shift in the publication process from 1 Kunle Ola is a lecturer at the Melbourne Campus of the Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University. He has over eighteen years Private, Public and International Organisation experience. He is an expert in the field of Intellectual Property and holds an LL. B, LL.M and Ph.D. in Law. 2 THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (NIV) (Tyndale House Publishers. 1978). 3 He Calls it the Commons a new paradigm for creating value and organizing a community of shared interest See DAVID BOLLIER, VIRAL SPIRAL: HOW THE COMMONERS BURT A

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