POLL: The current use of open access journals
August 19, 2013 2 Comments
Open access (OA) journals has been one of the main drivers of change in the academic publishing world in the last decades, and OA will still shape the future of assessment of research quality and scientific dissemination thanks to the Internet and Web 3.0 technology.
Behind this situation is the urgent demand of professors and researchers who need to publish in indexed journals (quality of research) but also expect their work to be accessible to a wider audience (citations), pressed by faculties and promotion.
And what are you doing with your papers? Are you using OA journals? What about fake or predatory journals/businesses? There are still some questions to be clarified. Please share with us your use as author of OA journals participating in the survey.
* OA: Open access
** It can be chosen 1 or 2 answers.
***Comments are highly encouraged.
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I favour OA journals but often get rebuttals by colleagues who are keen on impact factor and well-established publishers.
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