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Open Access
Open Access publishing is a latterly powerfully increased publishing model which strives for the free web distribution of scientific research and information. Open Access is an alternative to commercial publishing.
Via the Internet there is already now free access to a vast number of Open Aceess publications. Open Access publishing strives for following:
- the publications are in free use via the Internet
- the free and quick publishing process
- the users maintain copyright for their published researches
- the publications are peer reviewed
- the focus is on the wide distribution of scientific information and to make it better known
Operation of Open Access journals is financed in various ways. Some journals collect a small publishing fee by accepted article, part of the financing on the other hand is based on community memberships of universities and research institutes. You can get more information on Open Access movement among others from following sources:
Description of the Report of the Open Access Scientific Publishing Committee, Ministry of Education, March 2005. Includes recommendations for Finnish universities and research institutes concerning open access publishing.
Article: Richard Poynder: History of the Open Access movement: "Ten years after" Information Today, October, 21 (9), 2004.
Book (monograph): Are Chemical Journals Too Expensive and Inaccessible?: A Workshop Summary to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable. National Academis Press, USA, 2005. It discusses especially the scientific publishing of chemistry.
Some Finnish Open Access journals
- Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ Mathematica
- Boreal Environmental Research
- Mirator
- Nordic Journal of Commercial Law
Open Acces resources
FinnOA – Working group formed by researchers, scientific publishers and scientific libraries striving for making Finnish research results better known.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) – Free of charge Open Access journals from different fields in Internet.
BioMed Central – widely known publishing service of biomedical research. Articles published in BMC:s journals cost c £330-£900. For details see pricelist on BioMed Central's pages.
Impact factors of BioMed Central journals
Nucleic Acids Research, Open Access journal from year 2005 lähtien. More information.
PLOS - Public Library of Science, recognized Open Access journals from natural and medical sciences.
SPARC, SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition) – world wide orgnization formed by research institutes, scientific libraries and associations. Turku University Library is a member of Sparc.
PubMed Central – biomedical Open Access journals.
OAIster - University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Univ. of Michigan’s Open Access service consisting of free web resources from all over the world by over 360 (Nov 2004) organizations.
ArXiv – free service of storing research reports of mathematics, physics and data processing.
DViikki , publication bank of Viikki Science Library.
University of California, eScholarship Repository, publication bank of Univeristy of California.
Bergen Open Research Archive, publication bank of University of Bergen.
Self-Archiving Policy By Journal, List of publishers’ atttitude towards saving the pre- and post versions of articles to open publication archives. Useful tool to check publisher’s opinion.
OpCit-Project - Open Access publication archives of different fields from various universities and scientific research institutes.
EZB - Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB (Electronic Journals Library). Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg’s extensive catalogue of open access scientific electronic journals.
Google’s Open Access -indexes.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a license model according to which the owner of copyright gives up part of one’s rights for the text to facilitate it’s digital distribution. In Finland this license model is controled by HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology)
- Introduction to license models
Article: Herkko Hietanen: Open Content Licensing: Case Creative Commons (PDF), Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)