With the advent of the internet and emergence of digital archiving, access to information has significantly increased. A major milestone in making information publicly and freely…
In biology, a debate has erupted over using preprints to share your research article early online, before undergoing a formal peer review at a journal. The preprint is posted on a…
Openly available science is becoming increasingly lauded. As publication fees for open access journals and subscription cost skyrocket, self-archiving has become a trend and for…
In recent times, open access publishing has been gaining popularity in the scholarly community from funders, research organizations, universities, publishers, and researchers due…
Multiple platforms have appeared over the past decade for the online deposition of pre-publication scientific articles. Will they durably change the traditional academic publishing…
The term Open Access encompasses a variety of research contributions intended for dissemination to the research community. These can be broadly classified into two types:
(1)…
The open access movement offers a number of advantages to people cutting across all sections of society.
Access
Most journals and repositories do not impose access costs on the…
The Open Access approach is on the whole complementary to traditional publishing. It utilizes both new technological developments and their wide proliferation to ease the…
Instant Availability
Researchers who are frustrated with delays in making their results available to the world as academic journals continue to work months ahead of published…
Unlike private sector businesses, which may prefer to keep knowledge a trade secret, academic institutions have the free dissemination of all original research as their goal. This…
Open access publishing is the dream of every researcher: to publish papers that are instantly accessible to everyone and for free. There are now two versions of this dream.…
Open access repositories or archives are intended for researchers to contribute to the results of their research. This builds up an information and knowledge bank that is easily,…