Peer Reviewed Open Access Journals Information

By Stephen Bennett


Scholastic journals are publications released periodically containing original research, book reviews and review articles. Their purpose is in having a place for researchers in imparting their knowledge to other people, contributing to improve natural knowledge and perfecting all Philosophical Arts as well as Sciences. Articles are peer reviewed or refereed usually to prevent those with fraudulent data from getting published.

Researchers write these articles with funds received from government agencies, universities and institutions, they would donate these to journal publication. Government agencies, universities and institutions then purchases these from them, even the ones that provided the research funds, usually via subscription. This is the reason that peer reviewed open access journals became popular because it cost virtually nothing in reading them.

They receive their funding from the same entities though and anyone that has access to an internet connection can read them without paying a subscription fee. Legal and permission barriers are also removed such as licensing and copyright restrictions. Authors of these articles sometimes pay for them to get published by using the money of those who funded them.

OA journals have numerous varieties with full being one of them where accessing all their contents can be freely done. Delayed ones are those delaying the access and grants them after a few months and hybrid have some accessible contents and some not. These works can either be solicited meaning they were invited to pass their work, or else unsolicited, meaning they pass theirs even without an invitation.

Traditional publications and this method are peer reviewed which means people having similar competence that the author has, will evaluate it. Publishers select them anonymously and anonymously review the works in avoiding to get influenced. The method is done to improve performance, maintain quality standards and provide credibility.

They help to determine if the work would get rejected, accepted, or even acceptable though needing revisions done to it. Community of experts regarding a specific field which has the ability and qualifications is needed to perform impartial review reasonably. Being impartial is hard to accomplish particularly in inter disciplinary or less narrowly defined fields.

Widely accepting among their contemporaries the significance of an idea, either bad or good, is harder because of this. But refereeing is still considered essential to academic quality though all invalid research is impossible to be prevented from being published. Although it was anonymously done traditionally, giving comments now publicly is possible, allowing anyone to read them as well as know who had written them.

Identifying if that journals was refereed or not can be done in numerous ways with one being limiting your search criteria when using databases. This option is offered readily by some search screens while others require you to click the advance or expert option. Although some databases have no option for limiting their search criteria like this.

You could also examine the published journal physically or online by looking at the masthead at its cover where all information about them which includes if they were refereed. Another way is by looking at the ways its written and includes references using footnotes and bibliography. And finding their official would help in determining this but sometimes it is inaccurate still.




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