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Nature itself published a controversial news story in 2008 arguing that the Public Library of Science, a leader in open access, makes ends meet in part by publishing a large volume of lower quality papers in its journal PLoS One.
Open Access makes research freely available both to the academic community and beyond while publishing online only eliminates the need to reject good manuscripts simply to control the size of the printed journal.
Open access makes it easy for readers to find and make use of research literature in their field of interest, and it gives authors and their works increased visibility, readership, and impact [ 1- 4].
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The Internet brought a clamor from many scientists and interest groups for open access — making papers instantly available on the Web.
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Open access (OA) makes articles published in a journal freely available online.
In particular, many funders now advocate open access by making it a condition of funding that a version of the accepted article is made available in a public repository such as PubMed Central.
So how do non-predatory open access publishers make money?
Until relatively recently, there were not many alternatives for researchers who wanted to make a big impact with their work – but the commercial success of open-access journals published by the PLoS group, has proved that open access can make money.
Just over half prefer immediate open access to making papers free after 6 or more months.
Such numbers haven't persuaded other analysts that open access is making a historic transition.
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