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The Industrielle Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management
(INBE) has been published by the NCP Publications Ltd., for research paper on science societies. INBE provides a unique platform for theoretical and empirical discussions that distance themselves from the limited focus of discipline. It dedicates itself to comparative research and articles which deal with cases that exceed traditional field and country studies concerns. It is strongly encouraged by the Industrielle Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management
(INBE) that the transdisciplinary analysis of contemporary and historical social change which offers international scholars a meeting route for anthropological, cultural, economic, geographical, historical, political, pathological and sociological research. INBE also welcomes articles focusing on the humanities, which discuss relevant social issues. Industrielle Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management (INBE) publishes research papers, special themes and short symposiums which are internationally peer reviewed.

Open Access

Open access publishing allows an immediate, worldwide, barrier-free, open access to the full text of research papers, which is in the best interests of the scientific community.
• High visibility for maximum global exposure with open access publishing model
• Rigorous peer review of research papers
• Prompt faster publication with less cost
• Guaranteed targeted, multidisciplinary audience

Our journal has played a prominent role in the Open Access movement starting from as early as 2019. All original research papers published by NCP are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. INBE aims to operate at the very forefront of this movement while abiding by its highest possible standards. To that end, INBE fully endorses all the officially stated goals of the movement, which are detailed below.

Introduction

The Open Access movement has grown exponentially ever since its inception just a few years ago. Its ever-expanding presence in the academic world exhibits enormous diversity. Much information on the scope of the movement is available online. The design of the present page is 1) to provide an introduction to Open Access (OA) as a movement, 2) to list the many advantages of publishing through Open Access, and 3) to suggest further readings pertaining to the movement.

Scientific Research Publishing Inc. (SCIRP) has played a prominent role in the Open Access movement starting from as early as 2007. SCIRP aims to operate at the very forefront of this movement while abiding by its highest possible standards. To that end, SCIRP fully endorses all the officially stated goals of the movement, which are detailed below. In consequence, SCIRP has been delivering, and is delivering, many high quality Open Access journals ("Gold OA") involving relatively low publication fees, that is, in effect Article Processing Charges (APC).

Origins of Open Access

The term Open Access (OA) was introduced

1. by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (February 2002),
2. by the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (June 2003),
3. by the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (October 2003).

Their common ground is referred to as the "BBB Definition" in [1]. The BBB Definition is identical to the definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (see below).

Budapest Open Access Initiative

Open Access to peer-reviewed research literature means:

"...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." [2]

The reuse rights from this declaration can be described with the Creative Commons license "Attribution" (CC BY)

.

"We [BOAI] reaffirm the two primary strategies put forward in the BOAI:

• OA through repositories (also called 'green OA') and
• OA through journals (also called 'gold OA')." [2]

AJSSR has signed the declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

The declaration includes the paragraph "Supporting the Transition to the Electronic Open Access Paradigm". The signatories intend to ...

• encourage researchers/grant recipients to publish their work according to the principles
of the open access paradigm.
• maintain the standards of quality assurance and good scientific practice.
• advocate that open access publication be recognized in promotion and tenure evaluation.[3]

"Concerns that Open Access contravenes the rules of good scientific practice are unfounded, given that the same rules apply here as apply to conventional publications (ban on plagiarism, improper adaptation, etc.)." [4]

AJSSR is working with well established academics on its Editorial Boards. AJSSR follows DOAJ's criteria on Transparent Editorial Boards. AJSSR follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

"Many supporters of Open Access hope it will not only improve accessibility but also serve to keep costs down." [4]

The location of its offices allows AJSSR to keep Article Processing Charges low by international standards.

open-access.net

The open- access.net platform provides comprehensive information on OA and offers practical implementation advice. The platform states the following:

"The so-called serials crisis has acted as a catalyst for the development of the OA movement and its spread beyond the scientific sector. From the mid-nineties onwards, journal prices spiraled, especially in the natural sciences. University libraries were forced to cancel subscriptions which considerably reduced access to relevant scientific and scholarly knowledge and information." [5]

"Many research funders have published an Open Access policy, in which they adopt a clear stance on OA. This policy ... clarifies the concrete funding measures and the areas of focus that arise from the organisation's stance on OA and details the conditions under which funding is forthcoming." [6]

"In addition, more and more universities are committing themselves to OA and enabling toll-free archiving in their repositories and free access to scientific and scholarly documents. An overview of institutions' self-archiving policies can be found in the Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)." [7]

Arguments in favor of Open Access [8]:

    • "Increased visibility and higher citation rates"
    • "Fast, toll-free access to information"
    • "Good findability via search engines and reference services"
    • "All the benefits of digital documents"
    • "Improved information supply and a way out of the serials crisis"
    • "Promotes international and inter-disciplinary cooperation"
    • "Greater research efficiency through early discussion of findings"
    • "Authors retain exploitation rights"
    • "Open access to publicly-funded research results"
    • "Long-term document availability"

Selected Organizations, Projects and Activities in Open Access

Most of the examples follow the list in [9]. (If the description of the project is from this source it is put in quotation marks.)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
"DOAJ is a directory of Open Access journals covering free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals."
126 SCIRP journals are listed on DOAJ (2013-11-08)!

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
"The goal of OASPA is to represent and promote the interests of Open Access publishers in all scientific, scholarly and technical disciplines by encouraging communication between them, by setting quality standards, and by advancing the development of business and publishing models.
SCIRP is being set up to fulfill OASPA requirements.

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
"SPARC is an alliance of academies, university libraries and research organizations which promotes and develops low-cost alternatives to traditional publishing strategies."

SPARC Europe
SPARC Europe is a membership organization for European research libraries and research organizations. Its mission is to create change and build a better scholarly communication system for the future.

ResearchGATE
"ResearchGATE is an online social network for scholars and scientists. In addition to generating a profile page, it offers users the opportunity to communicate with fellow researchers, to manage their references and to search in various databases. The platform has been online since May 2008 and by its own account it already has 140 000 members ... [who] make a full-text version of the[ir] publication[s] available in Open Access."

Open Access Library (OALib)
The Open Access Library is a Search Engine, based on a database with metadata of Open Access papers. It contains OALib Journal, a scholarly, peer-reviewed, open access journal covering all subject areas in STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) as well as Social Sciences. Furthermore, it contains a repository with own OALib PrePrints as well as external preprints and postprints, all stored in one of the 322 OALib Disciplinary Repositories.