Análisis de las características y los modos de publicación de la revista de Acceso Abierto (Open Access) PLoS Biology y de su presencia en la Web of Science y SCOPUS, durante el período 2003-2007

摘要

Electronic publications have allowed the exchange of scientific documentation and access increasingly faster and potentially easy to scientific knowledge. This has generated another way of understanding scientific communication. Open Access (Open Access) 1 is one of those forms of expression linked science initiatives or projects that promote access favorezcen and open, free and unrestricted access to the papers published by the scientific community. The OA has become in a short time, an alternative option for the publication and dissemination of research results international scientific community. This medium offers many advantages over the traditional system of scientific publication in journals kept by commercial publishers, providing a channel for the publication of research results: faster, because it favors the immediate visibility of publications; cheaper, because it allows universities and research centers have access to more sources, more complete, because it can, not only query results but also the data on which they were based, and transparent, because it allows institutions of a better way to control the results of their research. The OA has generated significant discussion and action nuclei around institutional and financial support to open access publications on the Internet. The concept of "Open Access" not only has to do with accessibility to scientific literature, but also with the idea of ​​eliminating the requirement to transfer the copyright of the published articles, which facilitates greater and more rapid international dissemination. From this concept increasingly common, there are many initiatives with the premise of providing access to scientific publications electronically. Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a publisher of open access different scientific journals, all with a license that your articles can be reproduced, distributed and transformed to create new works even commercially. Access to the articles is free and therefore requires no subscription, but the economic model on which is to pay to publish. The first journal that published the publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) PLoS Biology was in October 2003, from this year onwards the publication has shown a remarkable growth equated with other scientific publications with great experience in the area