Friday, July 21, 2017

Information Regarding Peer Reviewed Open Access Journals

By Stephen Bennett


Academic journals are published periodically containing review articles, original research, and book reviews. Their purpose is to have somewhere that researchers can impart what they know to others, contribute on the improvement of natural knowledge and in perfecting every Sciences and Philosophical Arts. Articles are refereed usually or peer reviewed in preventing the publication of those with fraudulent data.

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 using this method receive their funds similarly but anyone could read their works without subscription fee as long as they have internet connection. Permission and legal barriers are removed also like copyright and licensing restrictions. Article authors though pay for their articles sometimes to get it published using the funds donated to 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.

This makes it harder to appreciate the significance, good or bad, of an idea widely within their contemporaries. But refereeing is considered important for academic quality though preventing every invalid research to get published is impossible. Some can give their comments openly right now although it was traditionally done anonymously which allows everyone to read them and who wrote 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 can examine also the published journal either physically or online via the masthead on its cover showing all information about them. Another is to examine the way it was written and if bibliography and footnotes of references were used. And their official website could help because it usually states it in there.




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