What is an Open Access Journal? | Academic Publishing

On this episode of Navigating Academia, Dr. Singh takes a deep dive into open access journals. You will learn the 3 key differences in open access vs traditional academic journals, and the pros and cons of publishing your article in one.

Some questions I hope this video will help answer are:

What are open access journals?
Are open access journals peer-reviewed?
Are open access journals reliable?
What are the pros and cons of publishing in an open access journal?
Should I publish in an open access journal?

To better understand what open access journals I'm going to provide you with the 3 key differentiators between publishing in open access journals vs traditional academic journals.

Difference #1 Who is paying?

In the traditional academic publishing process, if your article gets published there is no cost to you, the researcher. The end-user can buy the individual article or a subscription to the journal in which it appears.

It is because of the internet that the open access paradigm can exist. Instead of a journal asking the end-users to pay for access, the researchers themselves will pay the journal a pre-determined fee. The journal makes it so that that article is open access.

NOTE: There has been a rise in what is called predatory publishing and predatory journals. I will explain what those are in and what to look out for.

Difference # 2 Readership and citation count

Difference #3 How much respect your publication is going to have

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