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When you publish your book or chapter/journal article open access, you retain the copyright of your work. Through the creative commons licence of your choice, you can clearly state how your work can be reused. At EconSciences we want to give you the flexibility to publish your work how you want, so we can adapt to the creative commons licence that you and your funder prefer.
Your research is discoverable to a wider group of researchers as the content is made publicly available online without barriers to access from the day it published and kept freely available. OA books/OA Journals on average achieve ten times more downloads and 2.4 times more citations than non-OA books/OA Journals. It opens the readership of your work as your book or chapter will be more discoverable and can be found online without barriers. It means that the general public will be able to access and explore your research allowing lifelong learners to upskill in the areas that interest them without the financial constraints that may hold some back.
Open access books/articles are created through payment of book processing charge (usually by a funder). Because the cost of producing and hosting the eBook/eArticle is already covered, it means that researchers are able to discover and access the work online straight away and not be barred by subscription fees or download costs. This equalises the research landscape and enables collaboration, allowing independent researchers and those affiliated at different institutions to access your work. They are not dependant on the subscriptions that the institutions pay for, or one party paying to access research that may not be relevant as the payment for access that is covered by the book processing charge.
As research can be accessed across the globe, it allows more opportunities for collaboration and learning for researchers and students in the global research process, increasing your works impact.
Longevity - Once a piece of research is published open access, a fundamental part of our work as EconSciences is to safeguard the scholarly record and keep the research available and accessible long term. This means that the open access version online will always be available to access through archives at CLOCKSS and Portico.
Giving authors in all areas of economic sciences the opportunity to publish open access
EconSciences is portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of economic sciences. The entire content published with EconSciences is freely accessible online immediately upon publication. EconSciences views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.
EconSciences is committed to maintaining high quality standards
EconSciences publications are subject to high-level peer review, editorial, author and production services, ensuring the quality and reliability of the work.
Publishing with EconSciences enables authors to retain copyright
EconSciences journals and books are freely and permanently available online at EconSciences, the world’s most comprehensive online collection of STM content. In addition, EconSciences articles are freely available on the EconSciences website and are listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), increasing visibility and discoverability. Our EconSciences books are included in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).
Many EconSciences journals are citation-tracked and some already have Impact Factors
EconSciences supports several international archives and digital repositories, and encourages self-archiving by authors
All research articles published in a EconSciences journal are archived without delay in several international archives. EconSciences also allows authors to immediately deposit the official, final version of their published article in any suitable digital repository. Several institutions and research funders have introduced official policies requesting or requiring their authors to deposit the articles they publish in a central archive. EconSciences fully supports these deposition policies and is compliant with them.
Open access is a sustainable publication model
The traditional business model relies on restricting access to published research, in order to recoup the costs of the publication process. In the open access publishing model publication is treated as the last phase of the research process. An open access fee covers the cost of the publication process to allow free and immediate access to the research published. Open access fees ensure transparency and allow publishers to compete to provide the best service at the best price. By coupling the cost of publication to research budgets, open access fees ensure that the publishing system can scale to cope with an ever increasing volume of research.
EconSciences is committed to showing that open access provides a viable publishing model in addition to traditional subscription-based publishing.
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Open access is an integral part of our commitment to a collaborative, inclusive and transparent world of research where authors, researchers and academic institutions can share knowledge and build on each other's work to advance outcomes.
You can easily access hundreds of Books and Thousands of Journal Articles published by EconSciences. EconPedia, which started to be published in 2023, is an Encyclopedia in the field of economics. Provides open access encyclopedia articles on EconPedia.
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