What is Open Access ?
An Open Access Publication is one that meets the following two conditions:
1. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship,[B] as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving (GlobalOpenJournals.org's online archive is such a repository).
[A] Open access is a property of individual works, not necessarily journals or publishers.
[B] Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now.
Global Open Journals are freely available via the Internet for immediate worldwide open access to the full text of articles. No subscription fees is charged for open access journals. The modest open access publication costs are usually covered by the author's institution or research funds. Open access journals are not different from traditional subscription-based journals; they undergo the same peer-review and quality control process as any other scholarly journals. All journals are also available in print format.
Benefits of publishing your papers in Open Access Journals:
Your articles will obtain more citations.
Your articles will be freely available without subscription or price barriers.
Your articles will be peer-reviewed and published very fast.
