Open Access

At Science Repository, we are committed to the goals of Open Access Policies. Open access (OA) articles in Science Repository journals are published under Creative Commons licenses. These provide a global framework to support the easy re-use of open access material. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, global, forever right of access to, and a license to use, copy, distribute, display, and transmit the work publicly and to make and distribute for further works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to the proper authorization of authorship. The final published version of the article is made freely available immediately to everyone.
 

How Open Access Motivate Us

Open access itself (mostly green and gratis) began to be sought and provided worldwide by researchers when the possibility itself was opened by the advent of Internet and the World Wide Web. The momentum was further increased by a growing movement for academic journal publishing reform, and with it gold and libre OA. Electronic publishing created new benefits as compared to paper publishing but beyond that, it contributed to causing problems in traditional publishing models.

The premises behind open access publishing at Science Repository are that there are viable funding models to maintain traditional peer review standards of quality while also making the following changes:.
 

• Rather than making journal articles accessible through a subscription business model, all academic publications could be made free to read and published with some other cost-recovery model, such as publication charges, subsidies, or charging subscriptions only for the print edition, with the online edition gratis or "free to read"
• Rather than applying traditional notions of copyright to academic publications, they could be libre or "free to build upon".

Why Open Access?

Authors and researchers

We at Science Repository acknowledge the main reason authors make their articles openly accessible is to maximize their research impact. A study in 2001 first reported an open access citation impact advantage, and a growing number of studies have confirmed, with varying degrees of methodological rigor, that an open access article is more likely to be used and cited than one behind subscription barriers.

Scholars are paid by research funders and/or their universities to do research; the published article is the report of the work they have done, rather than an item for commercial gain. The more the article is used, cited, applied and built upon, the better for research as well as for the researcher's career.

Low-income countries

In developing nations, open access archiving and publishing acquires a unique importance. Scientists, health care professionals, and institutions in developing nations often do not have the capital necessary to access scholarly literature, although schemes exist to give them access for little or no cost. Many open access projects involve international collaboration.

Funding issues

The "article processing charges" which are often used for open access journals shift the burden of payment from readers to authors (or their funders), which creates a new set of concerns. One concern is that if a publisher makes a profit from accepting papers, it has an incentive to accept anything submitted, rather than selecting and rejecting articles based on quality. This could be remedied, however, by charging for the peer-review rather than acceptance.

How we manage?

At Science Repository we are not funded by any organisation & we completely depend on the nominal publication charges to the author. Our goal is to provide the best platform for authors & readers. All the charges are minimal & it's used for publication related expenses. The handling fee is required to meet its maintenance. Being an Open Access Journal Repository, we do not collect subscription charges from readers that enjoy free online access to the articles. Authors are hence required to pay a fair handling fee for processing their articles. However, there are no submission charges. Authors are required to make payment only after their manuscript has been accepted for publication.

The Licenses

All the work at Science Repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . Authors at Science Repository retain copyright to their work and allow others to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt their work, provided proper attribution is given.

   
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