“…The main goal of this panel was to reflect about the myths and reticences that today still persist in the international scientific community regarding Open Access, providing data, reasons and facts to banish any barrier that any researcher could have towards what is a mandate of the common sense in the global development of knowledge. EKS, besides being a research journal that has adopted the platinum route of Open Access since its first issue in 1998 (there are no economic charges to publish in open and the authors retain all their rights), it has always defended from its editorials (García-Peñalvo, 2015a, 2015b, and from many of its papers (Fidalgo-Blanco, et al, 2014;Lerís, et al, 2016; the Open Knowledge in a broad sense and the Open Science in a specific way (Ferreras-Fernández, et al, 2013b;García-Peñalvo, García de Figuerola, et al, 2010a, 2010b. Therefore, in this editorial I will try to synthesize the four main myths on which the debate revolved in this panel.…”