Publishing policies in open access journals: A literature review

Open access journals and forensic publishing.

Open access (OA) publishing makes articles available over the Internet at no charge. The OA movement had its official start in 2002 with the establishment of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. The goal of the OA movement is to remove access barriers, accelerate research, and thereby achieve its broader mission of promoting global welfare. The OA movement has made swift progress over the past ...

Open access publishing: a new direction for medical journals.

Independent Journals: Solutions for Low-cost, Open Access Journal Publishing

The growing momentum of the world wide open access movement has splurged a parallel trend of development of open source and low cost electronic publishing systems and digital repository services. These growth and development strongly reflect the desire of the scholarly communities to take back control of aspects of scholarly communication and to improve processes for the dissemination and impac...

Peer review in open access scientific journals

journals has revolutionized scientific publishing. Open access to medical publications has the potential to boost the timely and widespread dissemination of new research findings and, ultimately, to have a more immediate impact on clinical practice than traditional publishing methods. However, several aspects of open access publishing remain to be discussed and clarified by the scientific commu...

Open access, predatory publishing and peer-review

* In recent years, scholarly publishing faced a new paradigm regarding the accessibility: the open access movement. " If an article is "Open Access" it means that it can be freely accessed by anyone in the world using an internet connection ". 1 The Budapest Open Access Initiative states: " By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any...