Open access helps researchers as readers by opening up access to articles that their libraries do not subscribe to. All researchers benefit from open access as no library can afford to subscribe to every scientific journal and most can only afford a small fraction of them – this is known as the "serials crisis". [127]
Elsevier is one of the fastest-growing open access publishers in the world. Nearly all of Elsevier's 2,900 journals now enable open access publishing, including 800 journals which are fully open access journals.
Jul 17, 2024 · Open access (OA) is a set of principles and practices through which research outputs like journal articles are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. In "traditional" scholarly publishing, the publisher owns the rights to the articles in their journals.
Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries).
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
Open access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. There’s an incredible amount of scientific research conducted at universities and institutions around the world.
Oct 28, 2022 · Open-access advocates aim to make scholarship free to read, free to publish, and free to remix and reuse—irrespective of one’s institutional affiliation, geographic location, socioeconomic standing, and other factors.