Open Access and Scholarly Publishing: Challenges and the Way Forward
Keywords:
internet, scholars, publishing, Open accessAbstract
Open access is a free availability of literature on the internet, permitting
a user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the
full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software
or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial legal, or
technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to
the internet itself (The Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002). The paper
examines different concepts of open access on scholarly publication and
goes on to examine the motivation for open access and its benefits. The
findings posit that it enhances and increases the citation of published
scholarly works. It provides free online access to literature that is very
important as it also helps in career development. Efforts should be geared
towards inculcating the awareness of the concepts techniques,
technologies and benefits of open access in scholarly communities
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