Abstract
In the late 1990s chemists were among the early adopters of open access (OA) publishing. As also happened with preprints, the early successful adoption of OA publishing by chemists subsequently slowed down. In 2016 chemistry was found to be the discipline with the lowest proportion of OA articles in articles published between 2009 and 2015. To benefit from open science in terms of enhanced citations, collaboration, job and funding opportunities, chemistry scholars need updated information (and education) of practical relevance about open science. Suggesting avenues for quick uptake of OA publishing from chemists in both developed and developing countries, this article offers a critical perspective on academic publishing in the chemical sciences that will be useful to inform that education.
Highlights
In the late 1990s, chemistry scholars were among the first adopters of open access (OA)
With over 106,000 articles published in one year, MDPI, an OA multidisciplinary publisher jointly established by a former research chemist in 1996, in 2019 became the world’s fifth largest academic publisher.[31]
The article processing charge (APC) charged by the publisher for its journals, many of which are devoted to chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science, are in the order of CHF1,600–1,800
Summary
In the late 1990s, chemistry scholars were among the first adopters of open access (OA)publishing in the early digital era, namely of publishing scientific articles in journals freely accessible on the internet. ‘chemistry scholars open access journals’.1 Examples include Arkivoc publishing OA papers were among the first on synthetic organic chemistry since 2000 and the Beilstein Journal of adopters of open
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