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Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing

Author(s) -

Stuart M. Shieber

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

plos biology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127

H-Index - 271

eISSN - 1545-7885

pISSN - 1544-9173

DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000165

Subject(s) - publishing , open access publishing , disadvantage , open access journal , biology , equity (law) , path (computing) , world wide web , library science , computer science , medline , political science , law , scopus , biochemistry , programming language

Open-access journals, which provide access to their scholarly articles freely and without limitations, are at a systematic disadvantage relative to traditional closed-access journal publishing and its subscription-based business model. A simple, cost-effective remedy to this inequity could put open-access publishing on a path to become a sustainable, efficient system.

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