Use and Awareness of Open Access Journals among Physics Researchers in Bangalore City: A Study

Abstract

Open access (OA) journals have emerged as an alternative to the subscription model for journals. Researchers need to look at several aspects of OA journals before publishing their work some of the aspects are reputation of the journal, relevance of journal content, quality of peer review and journal’s impact factor. This paper deals with awareness and use of open access journals by physics researchers. A structured questionnaire was distributed to 480 physics researchers and we were able to get 352responses. The first part of questionnaire consists of demographic information; second part consists of awareness and usage of OA journals and last part consists satisfaction level of users. The study reviled that maximum respondents are using OA journals and more than fifty percent of them are satisfiedwith usage.