International Journal of Science, Engineering and TechnologyResearch journals comes in the varieties of features that open accessibility is one among the, but some journals charge for it. Open access journal fees are totally depending on the journal and the types of accessibility, while most of the journals include the open access journal fees in the onetime cost of publication work or some don’t charge for it. Generally, journals found of two types paid and unpaid journals, among them some journals don’t charge for the open access they provide it freely or doesn’t include cost of accessibility in the manuscript publication cost. But the open access journals also categorized into the different groups as per the color naming system and they are as follows below:
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- GOLD OA: As per the name suggest this gold open access is the premium model with the highest paid charges by the publisher. This gold open access model makes available all the resources quickly without any barriers in the research on the website of journal.
- GREEN OA: The green model is the normal model which offers the author or the publisher all the necessary requirement on the website. But they are self-archiving, and are controlled and monitored by institute and author both.
- HYBRID OA: The name hybrid tells that it is combination of the open access and closed access journal. In which publisher have to get the subscription for the accessibility but can access one at the time or permission for accessing any individual journal for which fees is paid.
Other models are also available like black open access, bronze open access and the platinum/diamond open access model, but the above mentioned are popular and demanding one.
While selecting the journal always prefer the journal with the monthly or bi-monthly, because choosing for the quarterly or yearly journal may take too much time in the publishing. Authors are always in the hurry to see their research published in journal or they don’t have time to wait for the whole year. Another thing that need to be check before targeting the journal that age of the journal, as it not be that much new so that its impact factor is low and also no identification. Also, it should provide necessary certifications to each author or publisher while the publishing procedure gets completed and that certification must be valid with identical signature of the journal committee host. So, these are some points that need to be remembered in the publication process.