What does Open Access imply?
All journal papers and book chapters published by Sciyo are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication.
Who benefits from open access?
Authors
Labelling your work as open access makes it accessible to a broader, world-wide audience. It increases its visibility and impact and creates a solid basis for the advancement of your academic career. All the while you retain the copyright of your work and the freedom to use it anyway you wish.
Researchers
Science builds upon past achievements. If you are a researcher, open access allows you to build upon a larger body of free knowledge. Your ability to access the wisdom present across the globe becomes independent of the resources provided by your library and institution. Dive freely into the collective genius.
Scientific community
Open access is an all-around enhancer of scientific climate. It ignites collaboration between scientists and creates a richer and more effective science. By enabling wider dissemination of science and faster communication of research findings, open access exposes you to latest research developments and accelerates breakthroughs.
General public
As a member of the public, you pay for taxpayer-funded research, so you should have free access to it. Open access makes cutting-edge research available to ordinary people, maximizing the benefits of scientific developments.
Libraries and universities
Open access literature significantly alleviates the pressure on library budgets created by the inflation of subscription prices for scientific literature. This enhances the library resources, catering to a hive of researchers in quest of their academic goals, which in turn reflects positively on university's research profile and rating.
Funding agencies
Institutions spending money on research want the widest possible dissemination of the work they have funded and free access to its outputs. They want better management, monitoring and assessment of their funding. Open access makes all of this easier.
Definitions
Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003)
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003)
Resources
Open Access Scholarly Information Source Book (OASIS)
Science Dissemination Using Open Access: E-Book
Open Access Blogger Peter Suber
Citation Rates In Open Access Articles
Organizations and Events
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC)