Open Access in the biomedical field: a unique opportunity for researchers (and research itself)

Giglia, Elena Open Access in the biomedical field: a unique opportunity for researchers (and research itself). Europa Medicophysica, 2007, vol. 43, n. 2, pp. 203-213. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Aim of this article is to offer an overview of the Open Access strategy and its innovative idea of a free scholarly communication. Following the worldwide debate on the crisis of the scholarly communication and the new opportunities of a networked environment, definitions, purposes and real advantages of the Open Access pathway are presented from a researcher's point of view. To maximize the impact and dissemination, by providing free access to the result of the research, two complementary roads are pointed out and explained ­ self-archiving in open archives and publishing in Open Access journals. To let authors make their choice the most useful tools to find one's way in this new reality are shown: directories, search engines, citation tracking projects. The starting survey being done, the article deals in its conclusions with the Open Access challenges and most debated themes: impact and dissemination, new assessment measures alternative to the Impact Factor, new mandatory policies of the funding agencies, questions related to the copyright issue.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	open access, biomedical research publication
Subjects:	H. Information sources, supports, channels. E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access. B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user:	Elena Giglia
Date deposited:	23 Oct 2008
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:13
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/12405

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