{"id":337,"date":"2017-05-19T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T09:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ueflibraryscifor.wordpress.com\/?page_id=337"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:14:21","slug":"sources-outside-university","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uef.fi\/ueflibraryscienceforestry\/sources\/sources-outside-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Open access – for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Being a member of university community<\/strong> gives you a great chance to find and read the most important scientific papers ever published and a huge amount of other important publications.

A large proportion of these publications is behind the so called paywall<\/strong> \u2013 the university has a subscription and pays for the access to read the publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recent trend is to make access to scientific publications possible for everybody and thus promote the utilisation of science in the whole society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An article or its’ metadata can be accessed different ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An article is published in a journal, which can be included in a full text database of the publisher’s all journals. The metadata of the article is saved in reference databases. The author of the article can upload his\/her article to a social networking site and the article can be uploaded to a repository of his\/her home organisation.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Open access is free for a reader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Open Access<\/strong> \u2013idea turns this system of payments upside down. To get an article published requires a fee, but once it’s published, all people can read it for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the costs are paid by the author of the article, not by the reader. This doesn\u2019t mean that everything can be published if you just pay for it. The high-quality open access journals have the same peer-review process before publishing as all the other scientific journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open access involves either whole journals, or single articles<\/strong> on a journal which is otherwise subject to a charge<\/span>. The best open access journals are as highly valued as the traditional scientific journals. Some others are not quite established yet, but their importance is growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A common symbol for an open access -publication.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This system will help you to keep updated on the latest progress of science after your graduation<\/strong> if working outside the university or research institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repositories are open too<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another possibility to read scientific papers is through Repositories.<\/strong> The coverage of these services is still limited, but the overall tendency of opening the scientific information through various channels is increasing strongly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many public institutions have a publishing policy to offer their research results open to benefit of all the community. Serial publications, like working papers or research notes are published in the website of organisation for free. Repositories of institute archive all the publications permanently. They may also contain journal articles published elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These resources can be accessed through Google or Google Scholar<\/strong> or by browsing specific organisations’ sites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some examples of repositories:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n