SCIRP Open Access (2024)

FAQs

Is SCIRP free? ›

A1: Yes. All SCIRP journals are made freely available online, we guarantee that no university library or individual reader will ever have to buy a subscription or buy access through pay-per-view fees to access the papers published in SCIRP journals.

Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is a predatory academic publisher of open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies that are considered to be of questionable quality.

Sci-Hub operates by providing free access to scientific papers that are typically behind paywalls. While this can be seen as a way to promote open access to knowledge, it also involves bypassing copyright protections put in place by publishers.

Journal of Materials Science articles are published open access under a CC BY licence (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence).

Issuu.com is a platform which allows you to upload and publish your magazines or publications (in print layout) online. They have paid plans as well as a free version. The free version on https://issuu.com allows you to create an Issuu account and use Issuu's reader and embed your online magazine on your site.

Scientific Reports has a 2-year impact factor of 4.6 (2022), and is the 5th most-cited journal in the world, with more than 738,000 citations in 2022*.

“Predatory journals and publishers are entities that prioritize self-interest at the expense of scholarship and are characterized by false or misleading information, deviation from best editorial and publication practices, a lack of transparency, and/or the use of aggressive and indiscriminate solicitation practices.”

The journal charges a submission or handling fee, instead of a publication fee (which means that you have to pay even if the paper is not accepted for publication) The types of submission/publication fees and what they amount to are not clearly stated on the journal's website.

Sci-Hub is an online search engine with millions of scholarly articles available free for download. Its activity, however, is illegal, because it infringes the copyright of the publishers.

Is Sci-Hub Russian? ›

Sci-Hub. According to Elbakyan, Sci-Hub is a simplified version of a Global Brain because it "connects [the] brains of many researchers." Elbakyan developed Sci-Hub in 2011, when she lived in Kazakhstan.

Despite being involved in several high-profile legal cases, Sci-Hub has never been shut down. Sometimes it's domains get seized, but it always manages to move to a new location. You can see the latest sci-hub links on this page.

Check the article's journal website. If a publication is OA then it is visible (via OA logo or OA statement) on the publisher website. It is suggested to add Unpaywall/Open Access Button/Kopernio plugins to your Chrome or FireFox (if possible) browsers.

Open Access (OA) publications reduce permission requirements and eliminate price barriers for readers. OA allows access for researchers, teachers, journalists, policy makers and the general public without a subscription. Many studies demonstrate that OA literature receives more citations than subscription publications.

What is open access and open research? Open access (OA) refers to the free, immediate, online availability of research outputs such as journal articles or books, combined with the rights to use these outputs fully in the digital environment. OA content is open to all, with no access fees.

Open access journals are journals whose articles are available and reusable worldwide free of charge and without restrictions immediately on publication. Most open access journals do not charge their authors for publishing articles. In other cases, the so-called author-pays model is common.

Submission fees are a common phenomenon in the fields of economics, finance and accounting: a large number of publishers, societies and journals charge submission fees for submissions in these areas. (Please note that a small number of titles in other subject areas also charge submission fees.

Submission of articles or posters is free of charge.