Journal of Business and Financial Affairs: Reasons to be an Open Access Journal

摘要

We, as academic researchers, are often frustrated with the difficulty or inconvenience of obtaining articles from some websites or libraries due to the lack of subscriptions. Also, we are reluctant to hand the copyrights of our research articles to the publishers who otherwise wont publish them. These are the problems. The academic community is aware of these problems. Some universities or academic communities have pushed for an open access model that authors retain all copyrights of their published work and provide free and open access to all users. Open access provides a rapid dissemination of research. The papers published in Open Access journals will be read by more people and consequently have more impact than the ones available only to paid subscribers.