Björk Bo-Christer
Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.
Intern Emerg Med. 2017 Mar;12(2):247-253. doi: 10.1007/s11739-017-1603-2. Epub 2017 Jan 18.
The Internet has fundamentally changed the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals, and the way readers find and access articles. Digital access is nowadays the norm, in particular for researchers. The Internet has enabled a totally new business model, Open Access (OA), in which an article is openly available in full text for anyone with Internet access. This article reviews the different options to achieve this, whether by journals changing their revenue structures from subscription to publishing charges, or authors utilizing a number of options for posting OA versions of article manuscripts in repositories. It also discusses the regrettable emergence of "predatory" publishers, who spam academics, and make money by promising them rapid publication with only the semblance of peer review. The situation is further discussed from the viewpoints of different stakeholders, including academics as authors and readers, practicing physicians and the general public.
互联网从根本上改变了学术同行评审期刊的出版方式，以及读者查找和获取文章的方式。如今，数字获取已成为常态，尤其是对研究人员而言。互联网催生了一种全新的商业模式——开放获取（OA），即任何能上网的人都可免费获取文章全文。本文回顾了实现这一目标的不同途径，包括期刊将收入结构从订阅制转变为出版收费制，以及作者利用多种方式在知识库中发布文章手稿的开放获取版本。本文还讨论了令人遗憾的“掠夺性”出版商的出现，他们向学者发送垃圾邮件，并通过承诺快速发表文章且仅提供表面的同行评审来盈利。本文从不同利益相关者的角度进一步探讨了这种情况，这些利益相关者包括作为作者和读者的学者、执业医师以及普通公众。
