The State of Individual’s Brain Circuits and Vulnerability to Nicotine Dependence

Abstract

Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research findings without any restrictions on use, commonly imposed by subscription based model. Open Access benefits researchers, policy makers, universities, nations and society as a whole. For researchers, it brings about more visibility and greater impact for their work. The immediate beneficiaries are the research scholars who gain instant worldwide visibility. This will help them tremendously in gaining a foothold in the highly competitive scientific community. More and more number of research funding agencies across the world are introducing Open Access policies that require their funded researchers to provide Open Access to their work. In short, Open Access brings greater visibility and impact, moves research along faster, and enables better management and assessment of research. The cycle of research, starting from the time the work is published, read, and cited to the time when it is built upon by other researchers, is enhanced and accelerated when results are available on an Open Access format. OMICS Publishing Group strongly supports this open access initiative and all articles published by OMICS Publishing Group are freely accessible to everyone immediately after publication. Some of the special features of OMICS group journals include digital formatting, audio listening, language translation and ability to share views on articles via social networking. The scope of “Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy” (JART) covers biological, social, and behavioral aspects of addictions across addictive behaviors and patient groups. JART provides it contributors with two key advantages. One is the rapid decision process with the fastest possible turn-around between the acceptance of articles and their publication. The second one is on-line free access to the Journal contents. This barrier-free distribution ensures the maximum reach and impact of research it publishes.