Open Access in Medical Publishing
In scientific publishing, open access (OA) means access that is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions to accessing literature and articles that have traditionally been published in scholarly journals. There are several variations in open access publis...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Slovenian Medical Association
2010-09-01
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| Series: | Zdravniški Vestnik |
| Online Access: | http://vestnik.szd.si/index.php/ZdravVest/article/view/290 |
| Summary: | In scientific publishing, open access (OA) means
access that is digital, online, free of charge, and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions
to accessing literature and articles that
have traditionally been published in scholarly
journals. There are several variations in open
access publishing: gold OA: a fully open access
journals hosted by the publisher with no restrictions
to online access; green OA: authors store
their articles , which may have been published
as non-open access in traditional journals, into
repositories; hybrid open access journals: traditional
journals providing a certain number of
open access articles; delayed open access journals:
open access articles provided after a period
of embargo. The aim of this article is to give an
overview of the main repositories in the field of
biomedicine (PubMed Central, BioMed Central,
PLoS) and to introduce open access journals. |
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| ISSN: | 1318-0347 1581-0224 |