Collaborative publishing: the difference between ‘gratis journals’ and ‘open access journals’

Collaborative publishing: the difference between ‘gratis journals’ and ‘open access journals’

* " An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the worldwide electronic distribution...

Open access journals and forensic publishing.

Open access (OA) publishing makes articles available over the Internet at no charge. The OA movement had its official start in 2002 with the establishment of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. The goal of the OA movement is to remove access barriers, accelerate research, and thereby achieve its broader mission of promoting global welfare. The OA movement has made swift progress over the past ...

A lesson learned about predatory journals and their difference from peer-reviewed open-access publishing

Ever since theWomen’s Dermatologic Society (WDS) Board of Directors voted in March of 2014 to establish a peer-reviewed journal, our leadership has realized how the advent of predatory publishing has affected the establishment of a legitimate medical publication. For example, in 2014, there were already approximately 40 different dermatologic journals but nonewith a specific focus onwomen’s ski...

Open access publishing: a new direction for medical journals.

Independent Journals: Solutions for Low-cost, Open Access Journal Publishing

The growing momentum of the world wide open access movement has splurged a parallel trend of development of open source and low cost electronic publishing systems and digital repository services. These growth and development strongly reflect the desire of the scholarly communities to take back control of aspects of scholarly communication and to improve processes for the dissemination and impac...