Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Parks R. The Faustian grip of academic publishing. J Econ Methodol. 2002;3:317–35.
Van Noorden R. Open access: the true cost of science publishing. Nature. 2013;495:426–9.
White S, Creaser C. Trends in scholarly journal prices 2000–2006. 2007.; Available from: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/downloads/op37.pdf
Bjork BC, Welling P, Laakso M, Majlender P, Hedlund T, Gudnason G. Open access to the scientific journal literature: situation 2009. PLoS One. 2010;5:e11273.
Laakso M, Bjork BC. Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure. BMC Med. 2012;10:124.
BjÖRk B-C, Solomon D. Pricing principles used by scholarly open access publishers. Learn Publ. 2012;25:132–7.
Global Research Council. Action Plan towards Open Access to Publications. 2013.; Available from: http://www.globalresearchcouncil.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/grc_action_plan_open_access%20FINAL.pdf
Schimmer R, Geschuhn K, Vogler A. Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access: a max Planck digital library open access policy white paper. 2015.; Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0026-C274-7, http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2148961/component/escidoc:2149096/MPDL_OATransition_White_Paper.pdf
Nick JM. Open access part I: the movement, the issues, and the benefits. Online. J Issues Nurs. 2012;17:8.
Lawson S. Fee waivers for open Access Journals. Publica. 2015;3:155–67.
Uddin R. Do submissions entitled to an auto-waiver take more time to be accepted by open access journals? BMC Res Notes. 2014;7:238.
Beall J. Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature. 2012;489:179.
Shen C, Bjork BC. ‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics. BMC Med. 2015;13:230.
Harnad S. Opening access by overcoming Zeno’s paralysis. In: Jacobs N, editor. Open access: key strategic, technical and economic aspects. Oxford: Chandos; 2006.
Bjork BC, Solomon D. Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact. BMC Med. 2012;10:73.
Hajjem C, Harnad S, Gingras Y. Ten-year cross-disciplinary comparison of the growth of open access and how it increases research citation impact. IEEE Data Eng Bull. 2005;28:39–47.
Lawrence S. Free online availability substantially increases a paper’s impact. Nature. 2001;411:521.
Eysenbach G. Citation advantage of open access articles. PLoS Biol. 2006;4:e157.
Seo JW, Chung H, Yun J, Park JY, Park E, Ahn Y. Usage trends of open access and local journals: a Korean case study. PLoS One. 2016;11:e0155843.
Solomon DJ, Björk B-C. Publication fees in open access publishing: sources of funding and factors influencing choice of journal. J Am Soc Inf Sci Technol. 2012;63:98–107.
Costs and business models in scientific research publishing, Wellcome Trust. 2004.; Available from: https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wtd003184_0.pdf
Worlock K. The pros and cons of open access Nature publishing group; 2004.; Available from: http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/34.html
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Scenario
Scenario
Arjun has just published an article in the Lancet Oncology. He is very excited with his achievement. His manuscript draws considerable attention from the medical fraternity with multiple email requests for the portable document format (PDF) of the manuscript. Arjun receives an email from the archiving website ResearchGate to upload a PDF of the manuscript. What should Arjun do?
-
(a)
Upload the PDF immediately to ResearchGate.
-
(b)
Upload the prepublication PDF proof of the manuscript to ResearchGate.
-
(c)
Contact Lancet Oncology to enquire what his rights as an author are before taking any further action.
-
(d)
Upload the manuscript not only to ResearchGate but his own personal website, as well.
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Barreto, S.G. (2017). Open Access for Publication – Can It Be Chosen?. In: Parija, S., Kate, V. (eds) Writing and Publishing a Scientific Research Paper. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4720-6_16
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4720-6_16
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-4719-0
Online ISBN: 978-981-10-4720-6
eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)