A Review On Open Access E-Journals Publication

Past few years have seen a soaring growth of open access (OA) publishing. An on-going debate worldwide is to whether the proliferation of OA publishing would benefit the society or not. OA model make availability of fast, subscription less and barrier-free access to the research papers and manuscripts. OA reduces marketing dependency and rely solely on spontaneous assist from search engines, bloggers and social networking. In this article, the concept, history with some common terminologies of OA is discussed. Types and other aspects of OA like repositories and publishing are presented. Distribution of open access journals pertaining to different countries and research fields are also illustrated.