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Issues in the field of open access

Benefits:

  • Visibility - material is widely available free of charge. Increases dissemination and impact of research. Increases the profile of the author on a world-wide basis.
  • Impact - there is evidence of enhanced citation rates for open access material. New bibliographic services are being developed to keep track of citations to papers in repositories.
  • Research output can be easily retrieved via an internet search, whatever the format.
  • Helps towards easing the rich/poor information-access divide.
  • Although most research is publicly funded, the results are not generally available to members of the public. Several fund holders have therefore introduced a mandate to require, or strongly recommend that research output is deposited in an open access repository.
  • Authors retain ownership of their content allowing them to reuse and repurpose their research for inclusion in websites, teaching material, presentations, databases and so on.
  • Improves scholarly communication and collaboration opportunities.
  • Material is securely archived with a stable internet address.
  • Gives the author a central archive of work, useful for the REF.
  • Open access may reduce delays in publication, depending on how the peer review process is implemented.
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PILOT - the Publication Process by Marion Kelt, GCU, Imperial College, London and East Midlands Research Group is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/emrsg/units/dissemination/