Biology and Environmental Science

Open-access journals offer an alternative to traditional subscription-based journals by providing researchers, students, and members of the general public with free access to peer-reviewed scholarly articles.

Databases, like Scopus, often index open-access articles, making it much easier to find open-access articles in a particular subject area.

Open access types available in Scopus:

• Gold: documents that are in journals that only publish open access.
• Hybrid-Gold: documents that are in journals that provide authors the choice of publishing open access.
• Bronze: published version of record or manuscript accepted for publication. The publisher has chosen to provide temporary or permanent free access.
• Green: published version or manuscript accepted for publication, available at the repository.

What are the advantages of using open-access articles?

• Greater access to publications that are typically blocked by a paywall 
• Immediate access to digital content

FINDING OPEN-ACCESS ARTICLES IN SCOPUS

References

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. (2022). Open access. https://sparcopen.org/open-access/