The Development of Open Access Journals

Posted by Noah Flakelar
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Nov 28, 2015
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In today’s digital world, the Online Open Access Journals have become very popular as they are widely used and acknowledged as the best source for good material and information. These are journals written by very knowledgeable scholars, who upload them online and make them accessible to everyone either for a fee or even for free. Some of these online scientific journals are really useful for research scholars, students and even people in the industry.  These are available to everyone who has access to the internet with no legal, financial and technical limitations whatsoever.

There are many online publishing groups that offer to publish these journals and papers for the convenience of both the writers and the consumers.  This field of open access papers and journals has developed in the recent times and has proved to be very useful to everyone who is interested in these subjects. There are also some such journals which are financed by government information agencies and academic associations and institutions.
 
The online open access journals that are based on fees need the payment to be made on behalf of the person who uploads it or the author. The money usually is got from the author, but it can also come from the research grant of the author. These grants are normally used to pay the online websites to upload the research papers or journals. Journals which are fees based have to take a few necessary steps to make sure that the editors who review the papers are not in know of whether the journal is fee based or not. This is because then the papers should be approved by editors who do not have any stake in the publication of the journal. The online publishing groups can be consulted if you are in any kind of doubt about the procedures and steps that you need to take when you apply for fee based publication of your journals or research papers. Normally universities finance and subsidize the other kind of open access journals that are not fee based ones. Sometimes other research centers, libraries, hospitals, government agencies and other academic associations can also finance the journals. Some papers also get financing from reprints, endowments, advertising and other such sources. Even online scientific journals with all the necessary data can be accessed online, which is a great relief for the research scholars and other science students.
 
Since the internet has slowly and surely turned to be the primary source of all literature and information, a lot of online paper and journals are emerging in a big way. Research paper and other online publishing groups carry out the editing and review that is to be conducted by peer groups and other co-writers. It is therefore no surprise that most of the researchers today use the web to source all the materials they need including literature review before they even begin their research projects earnestly. These research papers and platforms cover a wide range of subjects including psychology, mathematics, business, astronomy, computer science, engineering, education, law and economics. Thus the international open access journals have ensured that scientific research can go beyond any limit thereby providing the scientific community the chance to enhance their readability and citation.
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