Open AccessRationale for Publishing Open Access
Author(s) -
Allan D. Pierce
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of theoretical and computational acoustics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2591-7811
pISSN - 2591-7285
DOI - 10.1142/s2591728522500037
Subject(s) - publishing , download , vintage , the internet , electronic publishing , internet privacy , scientific publishing , world wide web , computer science , political science , history , law , archaeology
Authors submitting scientific articles to journals now have the option of publishing their articles open access. This entails paying the publisher a fee that will insure that readers can download a pdf of the article without charge from an internet site. This option is of relatively recent vintage and has become recently somewhat popular among authors who desire their articles to be widely read. The history of the emergence of such an option is reviewed and arguments are given for its being used.