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Open access helps researchers as readers by opening up access to articles that their libraries do not subscribe to. All researchers benefit from open access as no library can afford to subscribe to every scientific journal and most can only afford a small fraction of them – this is known as the "serials crisis". [127]
Open access publishers allow authors to retain their copyright, but attach a reuse license to the work so that it can be hosted by the publisher and openly shared, reused and adapted. Such publishers are funded either by charging authors article processing fees or by subsidy from a larger organisation . [1]
Science Publishing Group (SPG) is an open-access publisher of academic journals and books established in 2012. [1] It has an address in New York City [2] and many of its journals are named American Journal of..., but the company is actually based in Pakistan. [3] The company has been criticized for predatory publishing practices.
On 11 April 2003, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute held a meeting for 24 people to discuss better access to scholarly literature. [1] The group made a definition of an open access publication as one which grants a "free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative ...
Submission of preprints is accepted by all open access journals. Over the last decade, they have been joined by most subscription journals, however publisher policies are often vague or ill-defined. [1] In general, most publishers that permit preprints require that:
However, some dedicated open-access book publishers, such as Open Book Publishers, Punctum Books, and others who publish both books and journals like Open Humanities Press, [9] have been launched. Gradually, academic publishers and university presses have also adopted an open-access monograph approach, offering this publishing option alongside ...
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