I recently had a conversation with a university colleague which went something along the lines of “You work with Open Access content. If an image is available for free on the internet without a copyright symbol or watermark it’s free to use, right?” Admittedly part of my brain wanted to run away screaming from the assumptions implicit in the question, but after thinking about it a little, thought it would be more helpful to summarise it here. Open Access is defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative as ” free availability on the public internet, permitting any use
Open Access via ORA – the Oxford University Research Archive
ORA provides a home for Oxford's research outputs. Copyright permitting, full-text copies of your publications can be made available open access via ORA. For the green route, click on the logo & Deposit a copy of your peer-reviewed accepted manuscript. Even if you're going gold, drop a copy in ORA for long-term digital preservation.