http://zeroanthropology.net/2007/11/16/conversation-on-jornals-and-open-access-publishing/ Turning and turning in the widening gyre | The falcon cannot hear the falconer | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere | The ceremony of innocence is drowned | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are full of passionate intensity. -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://zeroanthropology.net/2007/11/16/conversation-on-jornals-and-open-access-publishing/#comment-13543 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:51:57 +0000 http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/conversation-on-jornals-and-open-access-publishing/#comment-13543 Hi!
Great article about open access publishing.
I will be free to say a couple words about it and benefits of OA.
You are write when you said that rubbish can and does get published anyway, but you must do you research in right places and you will find a quality material.
OA is free for all to read, and to use (or reuse) to various extents. You have free access to material (mainly scholarly publications) via the Internet.
Most journal articles are distributed via the World Wide Web, due to low distribution costs, increasing reach, speed, and increasing importance for scholarly communication.
One of the great beneficiaries of open access may be users in developing countries, where there are currently some universities with no journal subscriptions at all.
Access to online content requires Internet access, and this distributional consideration presents physical and sometimes financial “barriers” to access.
The more the article is used, cited, applied and built upon, the better for research as well as for the researcher’s career.

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