Open access publications are freely and permanently available online to anyone with an internet connection. Unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium is permitted, provided the author/editor is properly attributed.

1. OPEN ACCESS
JOURNALS
THEIRED ORGANISATION
PRESENTATION

2. WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS
 Open access publications are freely and
permanently available online to anyone with
an internet connection.
 Unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction
in any medium is permitted, provided the
author/editor is properly attributed.
 Open access has gained tremendous support
from both authors, who appreciate the
increased visibility of their work, as well as
science institutions and funders, who value
the societal impact of freely available research
results

3. WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS (CONTD.)
 Anyone who wants to read the articles must
pay to access them.
 Anyone who wants to use the articles in any
way must obtain permission from the
publisher and is often required to pay an
additional fee.
 Most publishers own the rights to the articles
in their journals.

4. WHY OPEN ACCESS
 Open access journals and books operate
under a reversed business model to the
traditional subscription-based publishing
model.
 Instead of charging users a fee to read the
content, they charge an open access fee at
the beginning of the publication process and
this enables all the content to be made freely
available.
 The author is responsible for making or
arranging the payment.

5. WHY OPEN ACCESS (CONTD.)
 The Internet gives us the opportunity to bring
this crucial information to a worldwide
audience at virtually no marginal cost, and
allows us to use it in new, innovative ways.
 This has resulted in a call for new framework
to allow research results to be more easily
accessed and used the call for Open Access.

6. HOW DOES OPEN ACCESS WORK
 The internet allows us to distribute knowledge
more widely, more efficiency and at a lower
cost than was previously possible.
 However, publishing still has costs that need
to be covered – such as proof reading,
copyediting, digital presentation and
preservation, promotion and dissemination of
your work.
 With Open Access, authors (or their
institutions or funders) pay an Article
Processing Charge to cover these costs,
ensuring their work is properly evaluated for

7. OPEN ACCESS MECHANISMS
 Open Access Publishing
 Digital Repositories
 Effectively Managed Author Rights
 Local, National and International Open
Access Policies

8. OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
Authors can choose to publish their research
articles in a growing number of journals that
meet the full definition of Open Access. Articles
are free to all interested readers, and the
publishers place no financial or copyright
barriers between the readers and the article.

9. DIGITAL REPOSITORIES
Authors can choose to deposit their research
articles in digital archives (often called Digital
Repositories or Institutional Repositories) which
conform to the standards of the Open Archives
Initiative (OAI), and enable readers to freely
access and fully reuse the article text.

10. EFFECTIVELY MANAGED AUTHOR
RIGHTS
As the authors of a research paper, you have
ability to ensure that your article can be
accessed and used by the widest possible
audience.

11. LOCAL, NATIONAL,
INTERNATIONAL POLICIES
Institutions that support research, from public
and private research funders to higher
education institutions, can implement effective
policies that that support making Open Access
to scholarly research articles the default mode
for their researchers.

12. THANK YOU