Hi,

I refer you to an essay with the following quotation:

"when the best journal in your field is not open access, and you're good enough to be published there, then you can publish there and still make your peer-reviewed text open access through a repository":

https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard

My advice would be to choose a number of best journals in your field where your article would have a chance to be published and then check for which of them your article can be published open access. Remember that many journals that are not in general open access can publish your article as an open access article for a fee, so your dilemma is not as strong as it may appear.

Thank you for your response Artur... but as you know, the fee to make it open-access is quite high (i.e too restrictive) making that option not very practical...

For a beginner, getting published is more important. Go for a reputed journal. Open access would be a secondary consideration. The fee may also be too steep.

In some cases there is a middle way, occasionally referred to as self-archiving or green open access. Some journals allow posting the preprint version of your article (roughly speaking, the one without the journal formatting and, in some cases, prior to taking into account the referees' comments ) at your web page or noncommercial repositories like arXiv.org but you should check very carefully what does a specific journal allow.

Also, many Springer journals let you share your article via ReadCube so that it can be read (but cannot be downloaded) if one has no valid subscription but 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; see https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/sharedit for details.

In a somewhat similar fashion, Elsevier has Sharelink giving access to a specific paper for 50 days without requiring subscription, see https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/submit-your-paper/sharing-and-promoting-your-article/share-link

Hi,

I refer you to an essay with the following quotation:

"when the best journal in your field is not open access, and you're good enough to be published there, then you can publish there and still make your peer-reviewed text open access through a repository":

https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/21/open-access-myths-peter-suber-harvard

The advice from Guardian is good but has an important caveat: one should check carefully whether the journal in question allows self-archiving and, if yes, under which conditions.

Hi,

It actually depends on your field of study. The best thing and the safest is to publish in a subscription journal, but if you choose an open access journal, you should find out where it is indexed, what its impact ? Does it appear regularly ? is it connected to a well known publisher ? Is it refereed ?

The open access, and the subscription are two models related to the publisher. Currently, the majority of subscription journals offer post-acceptance open access according to the choice of the authors. Your choice should be based on the quality of the journal, review and processing duration , services, and the open access fees. Since you are a beginner, the subscription journals may be better for you as you will learn some important issues during the publishing process. On the other hand, you may consider to present your work in a conference for relatively faster exposure to the scientific community of your discipline.

One limiting factor of open access Journals are publication fees which can be from several hundred US$ to more then 1000 US$. So I support advice of prof. Mohamed El-Shimy

I agree

Very useful discussion!

Many thanks for asking this question.

REGARDS

I prefer open access publication, as every interested person can download the PDF of such article without any expenditure.

I prefer open access. It gives scholars the opportunity to access scientific information with almost no cost and creates global visibility and recognition for the publisher and scientist.

Off course that open access is the better option but you need to have funds for such publications??

Thanks for all your answers... so far this has been a healthy discussion which hopefully would help researchers (especially the beginners)...

Yes Dr. Nikolovski, it is very expensive...

Some even over USD 2,000...

Open access journal is good in a sense that it will help your paper be distributed widely. Since most of the developing country's universities does not have access to publishers so they can easily get your paper by open access. There is a good chance of your paper getting cited more this way; not the ideal case though.

Open access and Non-open access journal have their merits and demerits. Young and inexperience researchers may choose to start with Open access journals since it is virtually free. However, to be recognized a top-notch researcher, you need to be publishing in Non-open access journals. Non-open access journals usually have premium and are considered as top class journals. They also ensure double blind review of manuscripts; hence, articles published exhume quality. I would sincerely advocate for Non-Open access journals; however, if you are a novice researcher you can start publishing with open access journals

Open access journal help in spreading the knowledge.However, some of these journals published a low quality Articles for financial reasons.

Open-access journal allow better visibility of your work

I think Open access journals are the best for beginners, while non- open access journals are for top-class researchers.

I think open access journal is easy to publishe and easy to acceess for every body so your work spread more easly but some open access publishe low value work