This model benefits the authors and the readers as well: the availability for free gives the publication a much larger audience and hence usually results in a greater impact, and the readers benefit from finding the full-text of the article for free and having the article easily accessed.
SML also encourages local medical/scientific journal publishers to be published as open access. This with time might result in higher impact for both the journal and its authors.
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THE GREEN ROAD TO OPEN ACCESS
This posting refers only to Gold Open Access publishing, and completely misses the much bigger, more promising and cost-free way to provide Open Access: Green Open Access self-archiving of articles published in conventional journals. Rather than paying for Gold OA, universities should mandate Green OA.
Harnad, S. (2007) The Green Road to Open Access: A Leveraged Transition. In: Gacs, Anna (Ed). The Culture of Periodicals from the Perspective of the Electronic Age. L'Harmattan. 99-106.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your comment and yes I agree with you hundred percent…but I was waiting till we have a comprehensive AUB institutional repository with well established policies as to self-archive the final peer-reviewed drafts of the researchers publications. The Blog information was just meant to be a first introduction/exposure to this model of publishing.
So yes, there are two ways to achieve OA:
• Gold OA: here the authors publish their articles in OA journals like BioMed Central after paying a certain fee (ranging from $1000 - $3000) for publishing in a peer-reviewed OA journal;
• Green OA: where authors publish in non-OA journals and self-archive their final peer-reviewed drafts in their own OA Institutional Repositories. This solves the problem of costs for publishing articles as Gold OA.
Moreover, some publishers like Springer follow a hybrid model of publishing in which the author has the choice to either publish the article as usual or to pay and publish article as OA (the other articles in the same issue would only be available through subscription).
Thanks again for your comment,
Aida
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