What is an Open Access Journal? | Academic Publishing

On this episode of Navigating Academia, Dr. Singh takes a deep dive into open access journals. You will learn the 3 key differences in open access vs traditional academic journals, and the pros and cons of publishing your article in one.

Some questions I hope this video will help answer are:

What are open access journals?
Are open access journals peer-reviewed?
Are open access journals reliable?
What are the pros and cons of publishing in an open access journal?
Should I publish in an open access journal?

To better understand what open access journals I'm going to provide you with the 3 key differentiators between publishing in open access journals vs traditional academic journals.

Difference #1 Who is paying?

In the traditional academic publishing process, if your article gets published there is no cost to you, the researcher. The end-user can buy the individual article or a subscription to the journal in which it appears.

It is because of the internet that the open access paradigm can exist. Instead of a journal asking the end-users to pay for access, the researchers themselves will pay the journal a pre-determined fee. The journal makes it so that that article is open access.

NOTE: There has been a rise in what is called predatory publishing and predatory journals. I will explain what those are in and what to look out for.

Difference # 2 Readership and citation count

Difference #3 How much respect your publication is going to have

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[desaipriyanshi]

Thank you for explaining the key differentiation between the Open Access Journals and the traditional type.

[aseerkhan]

The main hurdle in publishing in Open-Access Journal is the funding for that paper. If we find a person who will fund for our paper, that professor asks to write his name as a corresponding author(which is ethically incorrect). So, this problem should be solved as universities in low economic-countries do not give funding for these publications. Secondly, the advantage in publishing in Open-Access Journals is high count of readership and high count of citations. In traditional journals, a nominal student finds it difficult to pay and then read the article.

[TheApexsha]

This is so so helpful to someone like me who is trying to figure out how to begin contributing to journals.

[drashtipatel]

Nice video session about open access journal. Thank you so much - Drashti

[srushtigandhi]

Thank you for briefly explaining difference between open access journals from traditional journals.

[dr.purvpatel]

Thank you for explaining difference between open access journals from traditional journals

[chisomotolani]

Sir, you have nailed it, thanks for talking about open-access vs traditional journals

[devanshibhatt]

Thank you for explaining the difference between open access journals and traditional types.

[padiahiral]

Thank you for your insightful session on academic publication.

[payal]

Helpful for all those who are considering publishing in open access journal!

[swapniltripathi]

Thank you for explaining the difference between the Open Access Journals and the traditional type.

[molecular_mystique]

Thank you for providing information about open access journals.

[nidhipatel]

Thank you for informative session on Academic Publishing

[ashvarma]

Thanks very much. Great job. Ashok Varma M.D.San Francisco, California.

[bhartiprajapat]

Nice session on academic publication
Thank you

[mohitgoswami]

Thank you for the insightful and easy-to-understand explanation.

[bhavinpopat]

Thank you very much Sir for explaining the difference between traditional journal and open access journal!

[nayansharma]

Thank for explaining the difference between open access journals and traditional types

[namasveemunshi]

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

[UrmiPatel-shhc]

thank you sir for such an informative session.