OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE: THE DEVELOPMENTS SO FAR

Internet has generated the development of scholarly publications and every subject field is observing an incessant progress in the scholarly arcade. Open access, the invention of Internet has also bagged the universal support. Medical Science, is among the subjects which are perceiving an intense progress in the open access field. The study explores the prominence of open access titles in the field of Medical Science. Numerous features highlighting open access journals in the field of Medical Science are featured in the study.

The study will be supportive for the researchers in discovering the open access journals in the field of Medical Science for wider dissemination of its scholarly information and increase participation of wider user communities. Furthermore, it can also act as a revelation to the scholarly world to identify the real position of open access titles in the field of Medical Science.

The results noticeably reveal an illustrative progression of open access titles in the field of Medical Science. Commercial publishers have also united as open access market performers. As a developing subject field Medical Science has a long way to go, but the beginning is promising and it is hoped by studies such as this the user perspective may be a contributing factor to the establishment of open access publishing. There is also much demand on help from information professionals via open access.