In recognition of开放访问周，，，，Dr Pascal Meier伦敦大学学院和耶鲁医学院的介入心脏病专家，以及惠特尼·汤森（Whitney Townsend）密歇根大学健康科学执行研究服务协调员，对开放访问发布的好处发表了看法。

Dr Pascal Meier
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”Oscar Wilde

During the first few years of my academic career, I only used to submit my articles to “traditional” print journals. I would apply a “top-down” submission system for my papers: a list of traditional scholarly journals in my research field, ordered according to impact factors. I would submit the article to the highest ranked journal first, where it usually got rejected, and I would subsequently submit to the next journal, and then to the next until it eventually got accepted.

但是，在密歇根大学的奖学金中，我将研究扩展到图书馆，进行系统评价和荟萃分析。在与图书馆员的讨论中，尤其是与惠特尼·汤森（Whitney Townsend）的讨论中，我接触了开放访问出版的想法。大多数开放访问期刊都声称提供快速有效的审查和发布服务。这是一个非常引人注目的论点，因为我对自己的“自上而下”提交方法感到沮丧，这通常很慢，而且通常花了很长时间，直到纸张最终被接受并发表。

At the time of my first submission toBMC Medicine在2009年，我不得不承认我有不同的感觉：这是一个非常新的期刊，它还没有影响因素，因此我不确定这是否会算在我的学术生涯中。我不知道这些新期刊是否会成功与传统期刊“竞争”。与瑞士劳力士手表类似，传统期刊已经培养了他们的品牌名称，并在多年来建立了声誉。如果期刊失败怎么办？这篇文章会从万维网中消失并丢失，而无需任何纸质副本吗？

Despite having published also in rather renowned traditional journals including Circulation, ourpublication在BMC Medicine是新闻界收集的第一张纸。直到今天，我得到了阅读本文的临床医生和研究人员的信件。我在文章中有非常相似的经历，随后我发表了BMC Medicine在2010and2012，以及其他开放访问期刊，包括PLOS ONE。这些文章中的大多数确实引起了媒体的极大关注，并在《华尔街日报》和《 heart.org》等信息平台上提到了。

开放访问发布的缺点自然是它带有价格标签。但是，对我来说，绝对值得出版费。我不为自己进行研究。我想传播结果，我很想对临床实践产生影响，对未来的研究，我对我的研究领域的进步很感兴趣，其他作者会引用我的研究。作为学术作家，我不会从转载或版权中获利。我的研究会产生影响，并为我的学术晋升。我觉得发表文章也是一种自我广泛的形式。为什么我不希望尽可能多的人看我的广告？

惠特尼·汤森（Whitney Townsend）

When Dr. Meier and I first began to consult together on literature search strategies for his planned meta-analysis projects, the topic of Open Access (OA) publishing was of major interest to the academic library community as a whole, and for medical libraries in particular due to the joint pressures of shrinking collections budgets and rampant journal subscription inflation. While these are very practical concerns that effect libraries and the information resources that they are able to provide to their users, the idea of access to information for all is at the very core of every librarian’s philosophy. The benefit of Open Access journals for libraries and subscribers is obvious: free, timely access to articles without unregulated inflation. However, for the Open Access journal model to be truly viable to the clinical and research communities there need to be clear benefits to the authors as well.

研究表明与传统出版的期刊相比，在开放访问期刊上发表的文章更频繁地被访问和引用，这是任何希望向最广泛受众宣传其作品的主要优势。此外，完全开放的访问期刊履行了许多政府机构开始为资金所需的开放访问规定。尽管一些订阅期刊现在提供半开放的访问模型以帮助作者遵守开放式访问规定，但额外的费用（除了机构和个人已经支付的高订阅费用外）是常态。

开放获取期刊已经从一个interesting experiment to a robust alternative publishing model within a few short years. I believe there will always be a place for both traditional and open access journals, but it is very exciting for this librarian to see the work of “my” clinicians and researchers being disseminated, accessed, and cited at an unprecedented rate. The University of Michigan, along with many other academic institutions and advocacy groups, continues to act as an information hub and funding source for authors considering publishing in an open access format. Open Access Week is an outstanding time to learn more about what open access journals and publishing can do for you, as an author, clinician, or researcher. Be sure to check in with your local medical librarian for more information about institutional memberships to offset article submission fees, writing OA fees into grants, and other forms of open publishing that are available.