Subscription-based journals typically require readers to pay for the content that they read. ... Since individuals or institutions have to pay subscription charges, only those who have purchased a subscription to the journal/have purchased an article will have access to your paper.
Subscription-based journals typically require readers to pay for the content that they read. This has been the model followed traditionally in the academic publishing industry. Since individuals or institutions have to pay subscription charges, only those who have purchased a subscription to the journal/have purchased an article will have access to your paper.
In the open access model, readers are not charged: they have free online access to the content. By allowing free access to the scientific community and to the public, the open access model definitely ensures a wider readership.
Another difference is that in the subscription model, copyrights for the published content are usually transferred to the journal, while with open access journals authors generally retain copyright. This means that for an article published in a subscrition-based journal, anybody who wishes to use any part of the paper will have to seek permission from the journal.
OA journals, on the other hand, often use Creative Commons licenses (CC licenses), which make it easier for users to share, use, and build upon the original work.
However, in the open access model, authors usually have to pay article-processing charges (APCs) once their paper has been accepted for publication.
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It can be a difficult choice to make but note that there are many OA journals that do NOT charge the authors, see e.g. http://bit.ly/1HQQZ2w (this is a shortened URL to a search at doaj.org)
Note also that many journals (including many of those published by Elsevier and Springer) can, for a fee, publish your article open access even without being open access as a whole; of course, you must check separately whether this could be done for any specific journal you are interested in.
Also, many Springer journals let you share your article via ReadCube so that it can be read by anyone (but cannot be downloaded if one has no valid subscription) who has a sufficiently modern browser to handle enhanced PDF; for example the published version of my recent article Integrable (3+1)-dimensional systems with rational Lax pairs can be read in this way here: http://rdcu.be/Dkwh .
This can be a reasonable substitute for open access, but again you should check this for each journal separately whether this feature is available for it; see also https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/sharedit for details.
I would recommend mass and free access to the articles of an amateur researcher to put him or her in the spotlight. After gaining feet, fame and experience, s/he can publish then in subscription journals without erasing publications in free Open Access journals which I recommend to both matured and amateur researchers! The 'poor' can have access to excellent research papers in their field!
If we are beginner of the subscription of journal we have to believe with our honest opinion that we are in a position to contribute in a positive manner for the subscription of journal . Before deciding the said course of action we have to find the prior to this we have our own experience for publishing the articles in the magazine &we have to find out the reaction of the readers in an very impartial manner .
In above line such experience certainly help us to learn & help us to make a our own innovation .
This is my personal opinion
When we are trying to begin suggest to explore rather than directly trying for options for subscription journals
It all depends on the work and experience, minimal guidance is required but not required to always start with subscriptions, can look out options in open access and proceed further if at all it is necessary.
Dear @Aurelio Hess,
Your question is not only interesting, it is invaluable!
I read carefully, and several times, the answers of our RG friends - Everyone of them (Artur, Barbara, Dickson, Rohit, Anand, Monyer) has their point of view - however, I will share mine in some points: 1) history; 2) language; 3) people.
1) Brazil vs Bulgaria (sounds like a football)
2) Portuguese vs Bulgarian - language
3) Kindly, I hope!
Anyway, I have about 20 years in the area of operations management. I am sited too much, I do not care of WoK and Scopus... Is it mean that I am not good researcher?!
Thus, I prefer to be in a OA journals ...
Finally, many journals also allow the authors to post a preprint version of their article on their personal web site or at a repository like arXiv.org (or, in economics and finance perhaps repec.org -- I am not sure) but again you should check each journal specifically for that (and for the exact definition of what does this particular journal mean by a preprint).
This is commonly known as self-archiving or green open access. Of course, this probably would NOT suffice if you are officially required to publish open access by, say, your university or your grant agency.
Most of the time, it is significantly dependent on your fiscal standings. If you are being sponsored to publish (as it transpires in some tertiary institution), you can start of with high earn journals. The decision usually lies on the researcher.
Dear @Anton Nedyalkov,
Sorry for lasting so much time to answer you.
Following your answer:
1) Brazil vs Bulgaria (sounds like a football)... kkk ... think the same 2) Portuguese vs Bulgarian - language ... completely different 3) Kindly, I hope! ... you´re right. Both are kind. And about what you said: "Anyway, I have about 20 years in the area of operations management. I am sited too much, I do not care of WoK and Scopus... Is it mean that I am not good researcher?!"
In my opinion, NO. IT DOESN´T MEAN THAT! "Thus, I prefer to be in a OA journals" ... ME TOO!!
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
Hess
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Dear @Aurelio Hess,
Thank you for correct understanding of my answer.
Kind regards,
Anton
Thank you very much for the kind insights, fellow scientists.
All the best for all of you.
Prof. A. Hess
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