Open Access: An Evolving Alternative

Institutional journals as an alternative model for open access

Open Access is Evolving and ChemistryOpen is Too!

Kate Lawrence* Gone are the days when every mention of open access (OA) came with a long explanation of what it entails. Instead, OA is now widely accepted as a model for scholarly publishing. ChemistryOpen is proud to have been one of the journals there at the start for the chemistry community, being the first society-owned fully OA general chemistry journal, launched in 2011. Since then, Chem...

Open Access: The Alternative to Subscription-Based Medical Publishing

1 one of the world's first scientific journals, 2 the subscription-based journal has been the traditional model for disseminating scientific and medical knowledge. 3,4 Granting access only through subscription can place significant barriers to information sharing, thus putting research, teaching and patient care at risk. While the internet age has made information universally available, medical...

Reactive Power Pricing in an Open Access Environment Considering Combined Optimum Voltage Profile and Voltage Stability

In a de-regulated open access environment, reactive power is one of the ancillary services which must be provided by an Independent System Operator (ISO). In this paper, a new algorithm is proposed in which reactive power resources are initially so tuned that optimum security in terms of voltage profile and voltage stability are achieved while at the same time, the system losses are minimized. ...

Genes: an Open Access Journal

Genes have been in the scientific vocabulary for a hundred years. The term "gene" was proposed by the Danish plant scientist Wilhelm Johannsen in the first decade of the 20th century. For Johannsen, the gene remained an abstract concept, "free of any hypothesis" [1], but others were already pointing to chromosomes as the likely location of genes. The science of genetics was born at that time, a...