Title: Authors and Open Access Publishing
Author: Alma Swan and Sheridan Brow
Publisher: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Abstract:
Surveys were carried out to learn more about authors and open access publishing. Awareness of open access journals among those who had not published in them was quite high; awareness of 'self-archiving' was less. For open access journal authors the most important reason for publishing in that way was the principle of free access; their main concerns were grants and impact. Authors who had not published in an open access journal attributed that to unfamiliarity with such journals. Forty per cent of authors have self-archived their traditional journal articles and almost twice as many say they would do so if required to (Swan and Bro).
Three things I learned from the article
1. There are two main methods in which an author can provide open access to their work. One is by publishing it in open access journals and the other by placing their traditional journal articles in e-print archives (self-archiving).
2. Studies have shown that making research results available online for free increases readerships and thus citations.
3. Open access is of great importance to research community, research funders, scholarly publishers, and the public.
Application/Implication of what I've learned to my work/to me as a person:
Open access publishing has a great help in the community it can promote the researcher done by scholars and other works. It can also help the visibility of author’s work for free because it may reach a great number of users online. If we have any works that we want others to see or use it for free, we can choose open access publishing.
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