this is a slide about the open access journals and their brief history along with features ,advantages and disadvantages

1. Open access Journals
By
Harsha Rathi and Udaya Varadarajan
Documentation Research and Training Center
Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.

2. Contents
•Introduction
•What is open access?
•What is open access Journal?
•History
•Features
•Examples of open access journals
•Advantages and disadvantages
•Conclusion
•References

3. Introduction
Today’s society is known as Information Society. Information is all around us
and we need to gather it and manipulate it to get the maximum out of it. Open
access is a platform where any information is available free of cost.

4. What is open access?
Open access is a term used to describe a publishing model where the researcher
makes his/her publication freely available online, thereby eliminating
subscription, legal or financial barriers.

5. What is open access journal?
•Open access journals are scholarly journals which can be read online without
any forms of barriers like legal, financial or technical other than being
accessible through internet.
•There are two types of open access journals
Fee based open access journals: Here either the author or someone on behalf of him
has to pay to the publishing house.
No fee based open access journals: Here no one has to pay the fees.

6. History
•Most early open access journals were in 1990’s founded by individual scholars
and used as a business model based on voluntary works in spirit to open source
development of software.
•In the mid- and late- 1990’s open access journals were new electronic-only
journals founded by academics.
•From 2002 there have been increase in number of journals and articles

7. Features
♔They conduct peer reviews.
♔Compatible with copyright.
♔Many are publicly funded research.
♔“Free for readers, not free for producers” as said in Budapest Open Access
Initiative.

8. Examples of open access journals
These are the sites that provide platform for publishing and accessing any open
access journals and books:
✈Springeropen: They have journals collection of more than 2500 in English
and around 200 in German, fields like science, technology, medicine,
humanities and so on. Link:
✈OMICS international: They are committed to make genuine and reliable to
the scientific community. Its conferences is a platform which together
renowned speakers and scientists across the globe. Link:
https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php

11. Advantages and disadvantages
♋Advantages
✍Free for all
✍Increased readership
✍Access for researchers in developing countries
♋Disadvantages
✍Publication fees
✍Lack of quality control
✍Sustainability

12. Conclusion
Every coin has two faces, in the same way, open access has its different faces. It
is upon us to use or misuse the information and to provide authenticity to the
information given through open access.

13. References
•http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm#journals
•https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php
•http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020961
•http://www.med.lu.se/english/intramed/teaching_research/publish/open_ac
cess
•http://www.springer.com/gp/products/journals