Open Access

Open Access is a platform where all the information is accessible freely without any charges on the internet facilitating the users to download, read, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of the various manuscripts, crawl them for indexing, pass them to data software or use them for any other lawful purpose without financial, legal or technical barriers other than those inseperable from gaining access to the internet itself.

Benefits of Open Access

Authors retain Copy Rights

Increased Visibility and Citation advantage

Free access to publicly financed research results

Improved supply of information & response to serials crisis

Good findability by search engines and other indexing services

Promote international and interdisciplinary cooperation

Promote research efficiency by rapid discussion of research results

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is presenting the words, ideas, images, sounds, or the creative expression of others as your own else can be defined as the piece of work copied entirely from one or more sources.

Plagiarism in most can be avoided using the steps below:

Authors retain Copy Rights

Attribute references

Describing all sources of information

Giving acknowledgments

Providing footnotes

Using quotation marks wherever required

Paraphrasing the original, attributed work

For extensive quotations, obtain permission from the publisher of the original work

Avoiding self-plagiarism by taking permission from the publisher of the previous article authored by you Obtaining permission for use of published drawings or other illustrations

Peer Review

Peer Review is a systematic process which is used to judge the quality of manuscripts submitted for publication in a scholarly journal to make the information most reliable. Open Source Publishers follow Double Blind Peer Review Process in where the review is carried out by the External reviewers who are experts in particular field.

Need for Peer Review

Authors retain Copy Rights

Expectation of service receiver to receive quality service

To know the difference of minimum quality of information to the actual

To Ensure that the highest standards of information

Maintenance of reliablity