Pros and cons
Arguments in favour of Open Access
Increased visibility and higher citation rates
Fast, toll-free access to information
Good findability via search engines and reference services
All the benefits of digital documents
Improved information supply and a way out of the serials crisis
Promotes international and inter-disciplinary cooperation
Greater research efficiency through early discussion of findings
Authors retain exploitation rights
Open access to publicly-funded research results
Long-term document availability
Benefits in networked, IT-supported work environments
Early establishment of priority
Reservations about Open Access
Reservations about quality control
Findability issues
Long-term storage of digital documents
Reservations about authenticity of documents
Legal concerns
Financeability of the author-pays model
Concerns regarding allocation of publishing funds and conflicts of interest
Worries that self-archiving is time consuming
Open Access: a challenge to non-profit publishers
Impossibility of selecting target groups for information
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