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EURAB 06.049 European Research Advisory Board Final Report:
Scientific Publication: Policy on Open Access. December 2006

Open Access Journals

OA journals are published exclusively on-line and use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. The key attributes of such journals (Suber, 2006) are:

• OA journals conduct peer review.

• OA journals typically let authors retain copyright.

• Some OA journal publishers are non-profit (e.g. Public Library of Science) and some are for-profit (e.g. Biomed Central).

• Less than half are based on the 'author-pays' model and all have commitment to ensure that ability to pay is not a factor so page charges con be waived.

• Published on-line.

• Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles published in the journal (Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2003).