Açık erişim: Bilimsel İletişim ve Sosyal Bilimlerde Süreli Yayıncılık Üzerine Etkileri
Abstract
The availability of scientific and intellectual works freely through scientists’ personal web sites, digital
university archives or through the electronic print (eprint) archives of major scientific institutions has
radically changed the process of scientific communication within the last decade. The “Open Access”
(OA) initiative is having an impact upon the scientific communication process that is largely based on
publishing in scientific periodicals. It also interests researchers, university administrators, publishers,
users and institutions providing information services. This paper summarizes the current OA
developments and discusses the impact of OA on scientific communication on social sciences and
periodicals publishing.