While open licenses provide users with legal permission to engage in the 5R activities, many open content publishers make technical choices that interfere with a user's ability to engage in those same activities. The ALMS Framework provides a way of thinking about those technical choices and understanding the degree to which they enable or impede a user's ability to engage in the 5R activities permitted by open licenses (Wiley, 2021). 

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Video: The ALMS framework [2:23]

This material is an adaptation of Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources, originally written by David Wiley and published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at An Introduction to Open Education.