Abstract:
Scholarly communication as a social activity needs rethinking since this process
is in the monopoly of commercial publishers. Authors and their institutions as
well as librarians had been working to achieve unrestricted access to research
output. In this regard, many researchers around the world gathered in Budapest
on February 2002 to decide on global access to publications free of legal and
price barriers. This campaign leads to issuing the declaration Budapest Open
Access Initiative. This global and scientific gathering was the starting point for
open access movement. This new paradigm in scholarly communication is
discussed in this paper from price, legal, and business approaches. In relation to
open access policies, “green and gold” routes as well as new licences in terms of
Creative Commons are considered. Finally, I concluded that higher education
institutes should provide suitable infrastructure to make researchers’ works
accessible to others. At the same time, custodians of higher education have to
legislate for new policies to mandate their researchers to publish the outputs in
institutional and subject-based repositories.
Machine summary:
At the same time, custodians of higher education have to legislate for new policies to mandate their researchers to publish the outputs in institutional and subject-based repositories.
Keywords: open access policy, journal price crisis, journal permission crisis, creative commons, institutional repository, subject-based repository, golden route, green route Introduction Scholarly journals publishing started with establishment of learned societies in the mid of 17" century.
The higher education institutes should provide suitable infrastructure and implement new policies enable the researchers to make their research outputs open access as well as have access to peers' published works.
Literature Review Open access as a new model of research outputs publishing investigated from different approaches.
Hoorn & van der Graaf (2006) result showed the attitudes of authors in UK and Netherlands toward different open access copyright models.
(2007) investigated digital repositories from open access policies and copyright licensing of materials deposited into them.
By self- archiving research outputs in an institutional or subject-based repository open access, green route is achieved.
Discussion Open access to research outputs as a new paradigm in scholarly communication boosts content availability.
Open access is a new model of scholarly communication that is free of any legal and price barrier.
Although researchers' positive attitudes toward unrestricted access to publications are growing (TBI Communications, 2014; Odell, Dill & Palmer, 2014), they are sensitive about the way others copy, re-use, and build upon their content (van Nordoon, 2013).
Copyright issues in open access research journals: the authors' perspective.