Details About Peer Reviewed Open Access Journals

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.

These articles are written by researchers with the funds received from institutions, government agencies and universities, and then donated to journal publications. Institutions, government agencies and universities then buys them from them, even those who provided funds for the research, through subscription usually. This is why the peer reviewed open access journals slowly become more popular because reading them cost virtually nothing.

Researchers in this method receive funding the same way but their works are accessible to anyone that has an internet connection allowing them to read without subscription fee. Barriers like legal and permission ones are removed also such as restrictions in licensing and copyright. Authors though sometimes pay them for their articles to get published.

OA journals have several varieties with one of them being full where all content can be freely accessed. Hybrid ones only have some contents accessible openly and delayed are those access will be granted after some months or years. These works could be either solicited which individuals were requested in submitting their work, and unsolicited which they submit even without a request.

These, same as traditional publications, are peer reviewed or have people with similar competence the author has evaluate it. They were selected by publishers and review the works anonymously to avoid getting influenced. Doing this method provides credibility, improves performance and maintain standards of quality.

They help in deciding if the work gets accepted, rejected, or acceptable even but with revisions that has to be done. Group of experts about a specific field having qualifications and ability in being reasonably impartial in reviewing is needed. Accomplishing impartiality is difficult specially in fields having less narrow definition or inter disciplinary ones.

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 a journal is refereed or not could be done with many different ways and the first is to limit search criteria when searching databases. Some search screens offer this option readily and others need you to click the expert option or advance one. But some databases do not have an option like this available to limit search criteria.

You could examine the journal published also physically or online through looking at its masthead in the cover displaying all their information. Another is by examining how it was written and if it includes footnotes and bibliography of references used. And it would help you to find their official website because they would state it there.




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