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What is Open Access?

Open Access is an initiative that aims to make scientific research freely
available to all. To date our community has made over 100 million downloads.
It’s based on principles of collaboration, unobstructed discovery, and, most
importantly, scientific progression. As PhD students, we found it difficult to
access the research we needed, so we decided to create a new Open Access
publisher that levels the playing field for scientists across the world. How? By
making research easy to access, and puts the academic needs of the researchers
before the business interests of publishers.

Our authors and editors

We are a community of more than 103,000 authors and editors from 3,291
institutions spanning 160 countries, including Nobel Prize winners and some of
the world’s most-cited researchers. Publishing on IntechOpen allows authors to
earn citations and find new collaborators, meaning more people see your work not
only from your own field of study, but from other related fields too.

Content Alerts

Brief introduction to this section that descibes Open Access especially from an
IntechOpen perspective

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Contact

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Careers

Our team is growing all the time, so we’re always on the lookout for smart
people who want to help us reshape the world of scientific publishing.


ABOUT OPEN ACCESS AND OPEN SCIENCE

"Open access contributes to scientific excellence and integrity. It opens up
research results to wider analysis. It allows research results to be reused for
new discoveries. And it enables the multi-disciplinary research that is needed
to solve global 21st century problems. Open access connects science with
society. It allows the public to engage with research. To go behind the
headlines. And look at the scientific evidence. And it enables policy makers to
draw on innovative solutions to societal challenges".

Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research Science and Innovation at
the STM Annual Frankfurt Conference, October 2016.


OPEN ACCESS BACKGROUND

The Open Access publishing movement started in the early 2000s when academic
leaders from around the world participated in the formation of the Budapest
Initiative. They developed recommendations for an Open Access publishing
process, “which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with
unrestricted, free access to scholarly research—much of which is publicly
funded. Making the research publicly available to everyone—free of charge and
without most copyright and licensing restrictions—will accelerate scientific
research efforts and allow authors to reach a larger number of readers”
(reference: http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org)

IntechOpen’s co-founders, both scientists themselves, created the company while
undertaking research in robotics at Vienna University. Their goal was to spread
research freely “for scientists, by scientists’ to the rest of the world via the
Open Access publishing model. The company soon became a signatory of the
Budapest Initiative, which currently has more than 1000 supporting organizations
worldwide, ranging from universities to funders.

At IntechOpen today, we are still as committed to working with organizations and
people who care about scientific discovery, to putting the academic needs of the
scientific community first, and to providing an Open Access environment where
scientists can maximize their contribution to scientific advancement. By opening
up access to the world’s scientific research articles and book chapters, we aim
to facilitate greater opportunity for collaboration, scientific discovery and
progress. We subscribe wholeheartedly to the Open Access definition:

“By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free
availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download,
copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these 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 only
constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in
this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work
and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited” (reference:
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org)


OPEN ACCESS STANDARDS FOLLOWED BY INTECHOPEN

OAI-PMH

As a firm believer in the wider dissemination of knowledge, IntechOpen supports
the Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH Version
2.0). Read more

License

Book chapters published in edited volumes are distributed under the Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0). IntechOpen upholds a very
flexible Copyright Policy. There is no copyright transfer to the publisher and
Authors retain exclusive copyright to their work. All Monographs/Compacts are
distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Read more 

Peer Review Policies

All scientific works are Peer Reviewed prior to publishing. Read more 

OA Publishing Fees

The Open Access publishing model employed by IntechOpen eliminates subscription
charges and pay-per-view fees, enabling readers to access research at no cost.
In order to sustain operations and keep our publications freely accessible we
levy an Open Access Publishing Fee for manuscripts, which helps us cover the
costs of editorial work and the production of books. Read more 

Digital Archiving Policy

IntechOpen is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation and the
availability of all scholarly research we publish. We employ a variety of means
to enable us to deliver on our commitments to the scientific community. Apart
from preservation by the Croatian National Library (for publications prior to
April 18, 2018) and the British Library (for publications after April 18, 2018),
our entire catalogue is preserved in the CLOCKSS archive. 


OPEN SCIENCE

Open Science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and
developed through collaborative networks.

Open Science is about increased rigour, accountability, and reproducibility for
research. It is based on the principles of inclusion, fairness, equity, and
sharing, and ultimately seeks to change the way research is done, who is
involved and how it is valued. It aims to make research more open to
participation, review/refutation, improvement and (re)use for the world to
benefit.

Open Science refers to doing traditional science with more transparency involved
at various stages, for example by openly sharing code and data. It implies a
growing set of practices - within different disciplines - aiming at:

 * Promoting open and publicly accessible education tools
 * Transparency in experimental methodology, observation, and collection of data
 * Reproducible research data and re-analysis
 * Public availability and re-usability of scientific data
 * Public accessibility and transparency of scientific communication
 * Transparent peer-review and publishing practices
 * Using web-based tools to facilitate scientific collaboration
 * Supporting exchange of knowledge and research materials between disciplines
 * Supporting exchange of knowledge and research materials between scientific
   communities and industry.

We aim at improving the quality and availability of scholarly communication by
promoting and practicing:

 * Open Access
 * Open Data
 * Open Metrics and Impact
 * Open Source

 


CALL FOR AUTHORS

SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO INTECHOPEN

In addition to well-established academics in the field of scientific research,
we also welcome and encourage the next up-and-coming generation of scientists
looking to make their mark. No matter where you are in your career, we would
welcome you and encourage you to consider joining our community.

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BOOKS OPEN FOR CHAPTER SUBMISSIONS

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Growth Hormone - New Insights

GROWTH HORMONE - NEW INSIGHTS

Edited by Mario Bernardo-Filho

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Olfactory and Gustatory Systems

OLFACTORY AND GUSTATORY SYSTEMS

Edited by Vonnie D.C. Shields

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Rotavirus - Recent Advances

ROTAVIRUS - RECENT ADVANCES

Edited by Wael Hegazy

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Hemophilia - Future Directions

HEMOPHILIA - FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Edited by Cees Smit Sibinga

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Citizen Science - Methods, Approaches and New Perspectives

CITIZEN SCIENCE - METHODS, APPROACHES AND NEW PERSPECTIVES

Edited by Alessio Vovlas

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Sharks - Past, Present and Future

SHARKS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Edited by Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Bronchitis - Latest Developments

BRONCHITIS - LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Edited by Mayank Vats

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Advances and Challenges in Microplastics

ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES IN MICROPLASTICS

Edited by El-Sayed Salama

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Timber Buildings - Recent Developments in Testing, Modeling, Anal...

TIMBER BUILDINGS - RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TESTING, MODELING, ANALYSIS, DESIGN,
AND CONSTRUCTION

Edited by Ali M. Memari

Open for chapter submissions
IntechOpen
Scientometrics - Evolution, Methods, and Applications in Research

SCIENTOMETRICS - EVOLUTION, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS IN RESEARCH

Edited by Mohan Bairwa

Open for chapter submissions
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