There are many journals open access. Many journals are not open excess. People must be a member of that journal organization or there must be subscription of that journal. Those journals ore not open excess.
Some copyright clearly states that ‘Contributors should not post the Article on open websites or disseminate through an internet to anyone whatsoever’. Though you are not publishing the same article elsewhere (according to copyright act.)
Benefits of open excess publishing…
1. Immediate visibility for research output and thus increased visibility and usage of their results. Open Access may even lead to an increase of impact.
2. Access to literature everywhere, not only from a campus but also from any site with wifi access.
3. Increased access for target audience, financially a more attractive model.
4. Unrestricted access to material, enriched education, allowing equality of learning in poor as well as in rich nations.
5. If it was open access then there publication will get more wide access by the people around the world and publication will get more citation.
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The main disadvantage of open access journal that they not indexed in ISI web of knowledge. That is only one search engine which is available for me (Direct Science has the same base). So open access journals almost closed for target audience . RG can become a new source of information and new way to search it!
One of my professors once advised me to upload a different version made by the correspondent author (before the camera-ready version) of the research that is available for restricted/subscription access to avoid the copyright conflict
Different journal have different policies regarding permission for authors to self-archive their publications. The copyright infringement in this case is rather baffling, at least to me. Almost all the journals declare that the journals do not endorse the claims/findings of the published papers. At the same time, they retains the right to public distribution of the articles!! I don't think that this type of restrictions work at all. Individuals won't be tempted to buy an article because of the exorbitant price, rather one would try to get the article through some friends who have institutional access to it. I believe authors should be allowed to upload their research papers on some common platform like RG. One amicable option could be that direct download may be disabled, the papers could be allowed to read online only.
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