Open access online Journals for Libraries

Title of the Article : Open access forum : many roads to open access

Authors : Dick Kaser and Marydee Ojala

Source : (www.proquest.upd.edu.ph) Online; Jan/Feb 2005; 29, 1; Academic Research Library pg. 14

Abstract:

This article is about different forums on open access. The forums did not focus on the scholars’ revolt or on policy models for Open Access journals. Instead, the forums were designed to highlight issues that relate directly to librarians and others who use the internet to conduct search.

According to the article, there are many roads to open access. These are the green roads, gold roads, and toll roads. Toll roads refer to open access that is toll- free online access. Green road is self archiving that moves the costs from the user’s institution to the author’s institution. The gold road is the open access journals.

3 Things I Learned:

1. Open access covers many fields not only in librarianship but also in publishing, e- commerce, chemical industry, and field of sciences like physics, chemistry, and medicine.

2. Open access has worldwide appeal like science. Like science it happens everywhere. So, we must give importance to open access like we importance to science.

3. In an open access, still money is an issue. Because you need money as for subscription costs.

Implication / Application:

Open access is very important nowadays. In a digital library, open access is always present. Open access is equated simply with free information. That in a digital library, open access should be a combination of green road, gold road, and toll road. That open access should be toll-free-online, self- archiving, and can access scholarly journals.