Some more questions and resources about OA Journals.

New Journal Article: “Criteria for Open Access and Publishing”!

http://www.infodocket.com/2016/01/20/journal-article-criteria-for-open-access-and-publishing/

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_we_prefer_Open_Access_publishing

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_do_you_publish_in_OA_journals

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_open_access_journals_Should_it_be_encouraged_since_your_works_are_easily_available_for_everyone

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_your_experience_with_open_access_journals?_tpcectx=search

 Very nice input dear Dr. Mohammad Aljaradin.

Thanks a lot dear Dr. Mourad for your kind invitation. In the attached file you find an excellent inforgarphic details about OAJ, source (www.elsevier.com).

Regards, Emad

https://www.elsevier.com

Read this article to make a good judgement:

https://www.ediqo.com/blog/8-indicators-of-a-reputable-open-access-journal/

Hope this helps.

If the standard and quality of papers is up to the mark.....definitely an Open access journal is as good as any other peer reviewed journal.

The editorial board of the journal should be strong and realistic about publications, then definitely they are going have their own credentials.

Most publishers own the rights to print articles in their magazines. Therefore, no one is entitled to benefit from these articles until after the publisher's consent and pay a financial fee for that.

That many researchers can access the journals they need through their universities, and universities pay a fee, which is not free, as some researchers believe. I think that the issue of payment of financial fees for magazines printed and published are desirable to meet the needs of magazines for those fees, but there is no meaning and illogical for magazines (online) published on the net.

It need to be peer reviewed and the editorial board should be strong.

Leading publishers entertained the arrival of open access journals some years back. Some open access journals associated with leading publishers follow the standard protocol of peer review process.  Hence, their quality is good. Moreover, those open access journals are sponsored by the University or the Research institution which runs such journals in association with leading publishers.

The quality of open access journals depends on the publisher. If it is associated with leading and established publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis etc., the quality will be on par with other peer reviewed journals.

It is difficult to pay the open access fee by the authors especially from developing and under developed countries if such open access journals are not sponsored. For example, it is impossible/difficult to pay USD1000 by an author working in self-financing colleges in countries like INDIA.

The open access campaign gave birth to numerous journals and publishers. Too many mails bombard my inbox often by open access journals listing the benefits for authors. If you observe their mails and author instructions carefully, they can be easily labelled as Predatory Journals.

Publication has become a huge business across the globe. Hence, too many open access journals have emerged with minimum fee as low as USD 25. Their objective is to earn money and publish any scrap manuscript. Interestingly, some of those journals are indexed by Scopus and ISI. The peer review process and quality of the content are explicitly compromised.

Leading publishers raise the subscription fee annually.  Many universities from developing and underdeveloped countries cannot afford subscription. Recently, German universities decided to put a revolt against Elsevier on the issue of ever increasing subscription fee.  Hence, it may appear that open access would really help authors to access articles easily. However, in the long run or in a distant future, the author would end up in paying more than the subscription fee for publishing and in turn accessing other articles. The question is “Will the faculty or the scientist be paid salary richly to afford open access fee for every article?” In such a time in history, the publishers would have ensured their business intact. Because, everything would have become open access so that they need not to bother about income through subscription annually.   

Please look at the following questions in Researchgate

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_real_meaning_of_a_predatory_journals_is_there_any_need_to_handle_them 

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_some_academics_publishing_their_works_in_flaky_and_predatory_journals_churning_out_quantity_rather_quality/1

I have taken part in many similar or even same questions in last few years. Here are some of them.

OA Journals are nice sharing platform. Pay attention about predatory publishers.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_open-access_journals_be_trusted?_tpcectx=search

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Open_access_v_s_Non_Open_access_journals

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Would_you_publish_your_quality_paper_in_an_Open_Access_Journal_for_free

https://www.researchgate.net/post/open_access_journals_Are_there_any_problems?_tpcectx=search

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_advantages_and_disadvantages_of_open_access_Journals?_tpcectx=search

Some more questions and resources about OA Journals.

New Journal Article: “Criteria for Open Access and Publishing”!

http://www.infodocket.com/2016/01/20/journal-article-criteria-for-open-access-and-publishing/

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_we_prefer_Open_Access_publishing

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_do_you_publish_in_OA_journals

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_open_access_journals_Should_it_be_encouraged_since_your_works_are_easily_available_for_everyone

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_your_experience_with_open_access_journals?_tpcectx=search

I think they are okay (not too big a fan) sorry ...

good platform for research! but have doubtful question for review and quality issues!

I believe open access journals provide better platform for anyone to read anyone's paper without paying for it, however, I am of the opinion that the author should not be asked to pay for publishing his/her work. 

I believe in open access journals provided the journals have good quality of research articles and chapters.

Thank you.

Thank you so much dear colleagues for following & supporting the discussion.

Best regards, Mourad

https://www.edanzediting.com/blogs/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-open-access

Not good for developing country researcher .

My first paper published inn scientific reports which is a open access journal. Review was very strict. So it all depends on which journal you choose.

I agree with Dr.Amit

I agree with Mohammad Aljaradin. Best regards. 

Recommended post dear Dr.Brenda Jacono, I do agree with you.

Thanks and regards, Emad

I may suggest our project reagarding OA and predatory publishing.

https://www.researchgate.net/project/ETHICAL-AND-PREDATORY-PUBLISHING

Thank you so much dear colleagues for these useful comments.

Best regards, Mourad

Hello,

I am with open access journals.

Actually, I am with open access journals, if these journals are peer- reviewed and indexed

Thanks for sharing the question. In agreement with the colleagues, I support open access journals, if certain prerequisites, regarding their quality level, as mentioned above, are fulfilled.

Regards

Dear,

Thanks for sharing. Also I usually observe the requirements of the journal and in particular, I agree with the contribution of Prof. Aristidis.

This is fine article from my colleagues.

Fostering Open Access usage by creation of the library aggregator forEuropeana: project Europeana libraries

https://www.academia.edu/28145300/Fostering_Open_Access

As a reader, I love OA Journal (peer-reviewed and such). I can access papers for free. However, as an author I have to think twice before publishing my stuff on an OA Journal or as an OA paper, because one has to pay an expensive publication fee to publish on it (usually more than $US1000).  

Dear Derra Mourad.

I thank you for invitation , I am  with open access journals.

Please accept my high greetings..

A number of research papers have shown that open access articles are viewed more often than articles that are only available to subscribers, and are cited more often.

I am with Open Access Journals but they must be indexed.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals...

9,927 Journals

7,230 searchable at Article level

122 Countries

2,579,655 Articles...

https://doaj.org/

Since they maintain the seriousness of evaluation of the materials that have been submitted and published, it is the most democratic and broad way of meeting the need of the most needy and the most rich in scientific information. It facilitates the life of the researcher, since in general they are faster in the editorial logistics. The important thing is also that the cost of publishing is accessible to authors and fundamental to publishers, after all they need to maintain the organizational structure and publication on the network. In short: a symbiotic form of scientific publication and business logistics.