Journal Selection: Open Access
Open Access publishing is gaining in popularity, especially with funders of research instituting mandates around how the articles they have supported are published. Whether open access is a bit of an enigma for you or you're an expert, it can affect your research in a variety of ways.
For more info, read:
A Quick Guide to Open Access Publishing
Benefits of Publishing Your Work Open Access: Debunking Myths
And, to tell us what you think, participate in our recent Discussion: Perceptions of Open Access Journals and Importance of Open Access?
Dawn Angel is a Publisher with Wolters Kluwer, one of the world’s foremost publishers of medical, nursing and allied health journals. She manages a portfolio of several journals on the topics of surgery, neurology, and oncology. She has worked in the medical scholarly publishing field since 2005.
Please sign in or register for FREE
If you are a registered user on Lippincott® Author Community, please sign in
In my view, open access journals are only interested in the profits they make, without giving a damn about the scientific rigor and originality of the manuscripts. Including the so-called high impact journals (BMJ, for example).
Nowadays, there are more publications than time to read them.
It is really awful.
The race for Gold Open Access publishing has made it difficult for researchers from Middle to Low Income Countries to publish in a good journal. Almost all publishers of repute are shifting to Gold OA with APCs ranging from few hundred to thousands of dollars.
Very few journals accepting articles under Hybrid model or Subscription based model without APCs.