Information access is an area of research at the intersection of Informatics, Information Science, Information Security, Language Technology, Computer Science, and Library Science.The objective of the various research efforts in information access is to simplify and make it more effective for human users to access and further process large and unwieldy amounts of data and information.Several technologies applicable to the general area are Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Machine Translation, and Text Categorisation.During discussions on free access to information as well as on information policy, information access is understood as concerning the insurance of free and closed access to information.