Scholarly Open Access Journals

The first major international statement on the Open Access was made at the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002. Ever since that date, Open Access publication has been gathering momentum worldwide and is received with enthusiasm and high expectations in the developing world. Until the time of World War II scholarly journals were mainly released by science societies. Today there are almost 50000 peer-reviewed scholarly journals indexed in Ulrich’s periodicals directory and several public and private players are taking active part in these publications. From the viewpoint of the scientific community as a whole, the scholarly open access journals fulfill variety of functions.

Development of the Internet has triggered unexpected changes in the publication of peer-reviewed Science journals. Any discussion about the open access publication begins with delivering prices to the author, which primarily matters for the success of a journal. These processing charges do not matter if the authors understand the value they get for this payment and they go passionate by the sort of service they get from the journal. Across a variety of disciplines, open access articles have a greater research impact factor than the articles that are not freely available.
Open access journals are also leading the way in introducing innovative features and concepts in scholarly communication. Several academic journals have experimented with innovations in different fields like peer review, article processing fees, membership, sponsorship, formats, layout and structure of articles and so on. Among the others, Web 2.0 features have been recently adopted by some scholarly Open access journals. Newly founded online journals tend to be more proactive in experimentation and innovation than the commercial mainstream journals. They can support the emergence of new areas of study and new approaches to scholarship.

Features of Scholarly Open Access Journals
Paradigm:
• The universal accessibility
Process:
• Cost saving volunteer services for peer reviewing and the other tasks
• Cost effective open-source software reduces manpower.
Revenue:
• Funding by article processing charges
Product/service:
• Broader or narrower journal topics due to the worldwide reach
• Novel peer review strategies
• Faster article dissemination
• More flexibility within the layout and format of article
• Interactivity for after-publication discussions
• Easy reusability of the digital content

Peer-Review Process
OMICS International journals follow single-blind reviewing process, in which the reviewer is obscure to the author, but the identity of the author is known to the reviewer.
An editorial board asks subject experts to review, assess and evaluate submitted articles before accepting them for publication in a scholarly journal. Submissions are evaluated using criteria such as the originality of the work, excellence, novelty and significance of the research or thoughts and respect for copy rights. Scholarly open access journals use this peer review process to ensure and maintain the quality of material they publish and for their scholastic notoriety.

Benefits
Scholarly Open Access Journals benefits literally everybody, for the same explanations that research itself benefits everyone. Open Access publishing Journals performs this service by expediting research and making the results more widely accessible and useful. It benefits researchers as readers by helping them find and retrieve the data they need, and researchers as authors reach readers who can apply, cite and expand their work.

The fundamental explanation for why authors make their articles openly accessible is to expand their research impact. A study in 2001 initially reported the advantage of open access citation impact, and a developing number of studies have affirmed, with changing degrees of methodological thoroughness, that an open access article is more inclined to be utilized and cited than one behind subscription restraints.

Open access helps researchers as readers by opening up access to articles that their libraries don’t subscribe to. One of the incredible beneficiaries of open access may be users in developing countries, where as of now a few universities find it troublesome to pay for subscriptions needed to gain access to the recent journals. Scientific journals benefits non researchers by accelerating research and all the products that rely on research, such as medicines, useful technologies, solved problems, and enhanced approaches.

All OMICS content is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which was developed to expedite open access – specifically, free immediate access and unlimited reuse of original works of all types. Under this license, authors consent to make articles legally accessible for reuse, without authorization or expenses for virtually any purpose. Anybody might duplicate, circulate, or reuse these articles, with the expectation that the author and original source are properly cited.