Online Science Publishing (OSP) is a platform for peer-reviewed and scientific open-access journals. The Journals published by OSP are fully open access: research articles, reviews or any other content on this platform is available to everyone free of charge. To be able to provide open access journals, we finance publication though article processing charges (APC); these are usually covered by the authors’ institutes or research funding bodies.

ADVANTAGES OF OPEN ACCESS FOR AUTHORS

1. The high accessibility of our open access articles is guaranteed through the unlimited availability of the publication over the Internet.
2. Everybody can easily access and download the complete text of all articles published with OSP: readers of open access journals, i.e., mostly further academics, do not require paying any subscription charges to read articles published by OSP. Open access publications are also more likely to be included in search engines and indexing databases.
3. The Higher Citation Impact of open access articles results from their high publicity and availability.
4. Open access publishers cover their costs for editorial handling and editing of a paper by charging authors’ institutes or research funding agencies. The cost of handling and producing an article is covered through the one-time payment of an article processing charge (APC) for each accepted article. The APCs of open access publishers are only a fraction of the average income per paper earned by traditional, subscription-based publishers. ARP’s article processing charge (APC) is the same, irrespective of article length, because we wish to encourage publication of long papers with complete results and full experimental or computational details.
5. Faster Publication in OSP’s open access journals is achieved by online-only availability. Accepted articles are typically published online more rapidly in OSP journals than those of traditional, subscription-based and printed journals.

WHY WE SHOULD SUPPORT OPEN-ACCESS PUBLICATIONS?

1. BioMed Central’s video on the benefits of open access
2. Duke University Libraries’ page Benefits to open access
3. RCUK posted a blog on The benefits of Open Access on 12 August 2012
4. SPARC Europe’s page on The benefits of open access
5. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook’s page Benefits of Open Access for research dissemination
6. Houghton, J (2009) Open Access – What are the economic benefits? – A comparison of the United Kingdom,
7. Netherlands and Denmark
8. Houghton, J and Sheehan, P (2009) Estimating the Potential Impacts of Open Access to Research Findings, Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol 39, No 1, March

OPEN ACCESS INCREASES CITATIONS

1. [Bibliography] – Hitchcock, S (2012) The effect of open access and downloads (‘hits’) on citation impact: a bibliography of studies The Open citation Project – Reference Linking and Citation Analysis for Open Archives
2. [Bibliography] – Swan, A (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date.
3. [Bibliography] – Wagner, A.B. (2010) Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated Bibliography
4. According to Hitchcock’s site – the top five most-cited papers, as measured by Google Scholar
5. Lawrence, S., Free online availability substantially increases a paper’s impact, Nature, 31 May 2001
6. Harnad, S. and Brody, T., Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals, D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 10 No. 6, June 2004
7. Antelman, K., Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? College and Research Libraries, 65(5):372-382, September 2004
8. Eysenbach, G., Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles, PLoS Biology, Volume 4, Issue 5, May 2006
9. Harnad, S., et al., The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update, Serials Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, March 2008, 36-40
10. Also highly cited (100+ cites)
11. Hajjem, C., et al., Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact, IEEE Data Eng. Bull., Vol. 28, No. 4, Dec. 2005
12. Brody, T., et al., Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact, JASIST, Vol. 57, No. 8, 2006
13. Piwowar, H. A., et al., Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate, PLoS ONE, March 21, 2007
14. Craig, I. D., et al., Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Citation Impact? A critical review of the literature, Journal of Informetrics, 1 (3), July 2007
15. Kurtz, M. J., et al., The Effect of Use and Access on Citations, Information Processing and Management, 41 (6), Dec. 2005
16. Davis, P.M., et al., Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial, BMJ, 337:a568, 31 July 2008
17. Gargouri, Y., et al., Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research, PLOS ONE, 5(10): e13636, October 18, 2010