Introduction to Open Access

It is a political process by an individual or group which aims to influence public opinion, public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. It can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research.

Altmetrics is a new metrics proposed as an alternative to the widely used journal impact factor and personal citation indices such as h-index. The term altmetrics was proposed in 2010, as a generalization of article level metrics, and has its roots in the twitter #altmetrics hashtag.

The article influence determines the average influence of a journal's articles over the first five years after publication. It is calculated by dividing a journal’s EFS by the number of articles in the journal, normalized as a fraction of all articles in all publications.

It is the third commercially available citation index, launched in 1978 by the ISI. Now it is available with the WoS/ WoK platform.

A legal instrument that modifies the publisher's agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles.

A bundle of rights which are part of copyright law, such as right to share, use, reuse, modify, perform and remix.