Joshua Drew, a lecturer in marine conservation biology at Columbia University, offers a personal perspective on Open Access publishing from a researcher’s point of view. Having now moved to a policy of publishing entirely in Open Access journals, he talks to BioMed Central about the benefits that this can bring to researchers wishing to get the most from their publications, together with some of the challenges that lie ahead

开放访问发布有望彻底改变科学的进行方式。朝向这种出版模型的运动将对科学的资助，合作建立以及如何传达科学的方式产生下游影响。最终，开放访问发布将迫使研究人员重新评估我们如何优先考虑有限资源。我相信，如果研究人员共同努力以开放访问格式发布，我们可以最大程度地利用这些资源的回报。

Decreasing funding rates from federal and non-governmental agencies have forced researchers to closely evaluate how finite funds are allocated. With a shift to a user pays model, authors are now forced to allocate not insubstantial funds to publishing charges. While this is nothing new – page charges have been around for decades – the ubiquity of Open Access fees means that researchers must budget in several thousand dollars for publication.* One way this pressure may be alleviated is by altering the funding structure of grant proposals. By researchers explicitly requesting funds for publication in Open Access formats they can make the case that their outcomes will reach a broader audience and have a greater influence. Of course simply asking for more money may not be the most reliable strategy and more autochthonous methods of reallocation may be in order. This may result in scientists publishing fewer but more elaborate papers, publishing with more partners (thus spreading the publishing cost over a greater field of authors) or choosing to publish with journals that have fixed yearly costs.

通过选择在开放访问期刊上发布，科学家能够扩大其影响力和潜在的协作网络。使研究人员更广泛地获得，这意味着更多国家 /地区正在阅读这项工作。这确立了独特，更广泛的合作的潜力，尤其是在发展中国家的实验室。此外，通过降低与政府机构互动的障碍，研究人员也更有可能将其工作转化为政策行动。我在其他地方写过关于开放访问格式的发布如何帮助进一步的保护生物学bob电子体育竞技。从我作为研究人员和保护生物学家的角度来看，我只会补充说，以开放访问格式发布的主要优势是，它允许科学民主化，将信息掌握在管理人员的手中，以便他们拥有最新的数据做出明智的保护决定。

对我来说，巴布亚新几内亚的一位经理在根本上是不公平的，例如，无法访问她可以从办公室看到的有关礁石的论文，因为该论文发表在她的机构无法负担的期刊上。

The crux of these arguments for publishing Open Access lies in the assumption that science published in Open Access journals will be more widely read than those in closed access journals, and that increase in communication will have follow-on impacts for researcher’s success in grants and tenure. While there is mounting evidence that articles published in Open Access journals are more widely read** the downstream implications of publishing preferentially, or exclusively in Open Access journals on promotion and funding remains to be seen.

开放式出版提供了巨大的潜力，可以彻底改变我们的工作方式以及如何报告科学。然而，对于有兴趣航行这些水域的研究人员来说，要采取关键方法，以采取至关重要的方法，即转移到替代出版模式的真正风险和好处。我亲自搬到了完全开放的访问发布政策，并为我从同事那里得到的回应感到兴奋。当您将开放式访问论文的可用性与社交媒体的动态性质（Twitter，Facebook等）相结合时，您可以为您的工作吸引全新和参与的受众，这可能完全不包括在封闭的访问模型中发布。我鼓励您尝试一下。

*尚未围绕单个开放访问模型有结合，也没有特别需要。不同的期刊正在根据价格，包容性和折扣结构对开放访问空间进行分区。

** Gargouri Y，Hajjem C，LarivièreV，Gingras Y，Carr L等。（2010）自选择或授权，开放访问会增加引用对更高质量研究的影响。PLOS ONE 5（10）：E13636。doi：10.1371/journal.pone.0013636

Joshua Drew is a lecturer and director of the MA program in Conservation Biology at Columbia University. His research focuses on the evolution, historical ecology and conservation of Pacific coral reef systems. He recently published the article “Biodiversity Inventories and Conservation of the Marine Fishes of Bootless Bay, Papua New Guinea”并被邀请为这个来宾博客贡献BMC Ecology。您可以在他在Twitter上的实验室进行研究@drew_lab