Open Access Publishing

1. Many publishing house owns the rights of the articles published in their journals and they charge fee from whoever wants to read them.

2. Therefore, the idea of open access publishing is introduced where the authors and the readers are free from publishing and accessing, respectively.

3. In research, open access is a set of rule and regulation by which a research scholar can access the resource of relevant field of research for further research.

4. Open access publish the research article for free and give access to other researcher for further study for free.

5. The main principle of open access publishing is peer reviewed literature for the research and eradicates copying and reuse by open access licensing.

6. Open access publications are applicable to all types of publications like peer-reviewed journals, research papers, theses, books, etc.

7. Open access publishing is backed by UNESCO to provided free and unrestricted online resource for the research purpose. 

8. As per UNESCO, "the content is universally and freely accessible, at no cost to the reader, via the Internet or otherwise." 

9. As per UNESCO, the author or copyright owner irrevocably grants to all users, for an unlimited period, "the right to use, copy, or distribute the article, on condition that proper attribution is given."

10. As per UNESCO, "it is deposited, immediately, in full and in a suitable electronic form, in at least one widely and internationally recognized open access repository committed to open access."

11. All digital contents like audio, video, text, graph, images, software, data, executable code, articles, theses, etc. are free to publish by the author and free to access by the person who wants to use it, ethically.

12. Advantages of open access publications are

• Free for all the authors and readers who wants to use, ethically

• Increase in accessing the resource

• Free access to the researchers in all the countries

13. Disadvantages of open access publications are

• Sustainability in longer run for publication houses

• Lack in quality of the written materials as quantity increases

• No fee leads many publications houses to be shut down without fund