According to Mehr reporter, the goal of open access is to provide unhindered access to scieific and research knowledge so that all applicas, including scieists, researchers and the general public, can access the latest research findings.
Open access articles are articles that are available to the audience without any restrictions and everyone can access the full text of the article. This approach has been created with the aim of increasing the visibility and impact of research, scieific clarification and accelerating the progress of human knowledge.
In the open access model, publication costs are usually covered by the author, his or her affiliated organization, or through donations. This model is in corast to traditional magazines, which publish articles for free, but access to their text is provided to the audience through the sale of subscription rights.
According to the expansion of the “open access” model, the publication of articles by publishers is subject to the payme of the publication fee by the authors, which due to issues such as sanctions and the rise in the price of the dollar, it will be difficult for Iranian researchers to cover the publication fee.
Dr. Mohammad Hassanzadeh in a conversation with Mehr reporter about the “free access” moveme and its effect on the process of Iran’s participation in the scieific publications of the world said: following the free access moveme in the world, all commercial publishers are obliged to review and of course urgely make themselves freely accessible to the audience. In order to secure their financial resources, they have to change their publishing mechanism and inevitably receive money from the authors in the form of publishing fees. These amous vary from 500 dollars and Euros to 3500 or even 4000 Euros depending on the rank of the publication.
He stated that in the future our researchers will face problems in providing this money, and said: it is necessary to consider a mechanism in the research process to provide these amous so that researchers can use differe formats such as research credits or governme and industry gras. Provide copyright.
The downward trend of Iran’s scieific position will iensify
The head of the base for providing scieific resources of the coury stated that securing the right to publish articles will have a great effect on maiaining Iran’s position in terms of participation in iernational prestigious publications, and coinued: If we do not foresee a ceralized line in the budget for the required financial resources in 1404 and the following years, We will be in trouble and a sharp downward trend will dominate Iran’s position at the global level.
He poied out: if these financial resources are provided, scieific growth will coinue to be stable, but if these amous are not foreseen in the budget, in addition to the lack of sharing of the database that caused the slow growth of Iran’s scieific position, the factor of publishing rights will also be added to it. . Because according to the distance between the couries that are in the top and bottom ranks of our coury, the shifting of ranks happens quickly.
Hassanzadeh emphasized: We request the officials in the Program and Budget Organization, and the releva commissions of the Islamic Council, especially the Education and Research Commission and the Iegration Commission, to pay the subscription fees of databases and the publication rights of researchers in journals in any decision to finance these two factors. Iernationally recognized, so that the coury’s science and technology system, which has found a suitable place in the world so far with the efforts of researchers, can coinue to maiain and improve this place.
