Open access journals

1. Open Access Journals
Prof. Dr. Khalid Mahmood
Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences
University of the Punjab

2. Open access scholarly publishing
 Traditional model relies on commercial publishers;
Libraries and readers have to purchase
 Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of
charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions
 Author, his employer or funding agency bears cost of
publishing
 Benefits to authors: Increased visibility and citation rate
 About 16,000 OA journals at DOAJ

3. Open access models
 Gold OA
 Articles available for free immediately on publisher’s website
 Green OA
 Self archiving by authors in a research repository
 Hybrid OA
 Mixture of open access and closed access articles
 Bronze OA
 Articles are free to read but not available for reuse
 Diamond/platinum OA
 Free articles without article processing fee from authors
 Black OA
 Unauthorized digital copying by large-scale copyright infringement

4. Best of luck for your publishing career
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