All of our scientific journals are open access scholarly journals that are available online to the readers without financial, legal, or technical barriers based on the theory to keep an article's content intact. Creative Commons licenses can be used to specify usage rights. For the most part, the direct beneficiaries of research articles are other researchers. Open Access helps researchers as readers by opening up access to articles that their libraries do not subscribe to. One of the great beneficiaries of open access may be users in developing countries, where there are currently some universities with no journal subscriptions at all – although schemes exist for providing subscription-only scientific publications to those affiliated to institutions in developing countries at little or no cost. All researchers benefit from Open Access, as no library can afford to subscribe to every scientific journal and most can only afford a small fraction of them . Open access extends the reach of research beyond its immediate academic circle. An Open Access article can be read by anyone - a professional in the field, a researcher in another field, a journalist, a politician, civil servant, or an interested hobbyist. |
