Socialism is a way of organizing a society where major industries are owned and they are controlled by the government instead of individual people and companies. It is an economic and political system based on public or collective ownership of the means of production. Socialism emphasizes equality rather than achievement. Open access is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. With open access strictly defined, or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright.