Introduction to Open Access

It is a peer-reviewed periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research.

It is the first commercially available citation index, launched in 1964 by the ISI. Now it is available with the WoS/ WoK platform.

It is a prestige metric based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'.

It is the world's largest abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

It offers free availability of selected articles of a journal issue, while the rest of the issue requires a subscription to access.

It is a reference an author provide in a document to other documents written by himself/ herself.

A common phenomenon to describe the constant increase in subscription cost increases of many scholarly journals.

It provides free access to articles for a short period after publication, after which they are only available to paid subscribers.

It measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

It is the second commercially available citation index, launched in 1972 by the ISI. Now it is available with the WoS/ WoK platform.