Thieme E-Journals - Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery / Full Text

"The rise of open-access (OA) journals has brought about a significant shift in the publishing model over the past two decades. This change has been driven by two key developments. Firstly, public funded groups, such as the National Institutes of Health, The Wellcome Trust (U.K.), and Research Councils UK (RCUK), now require open access publication of research they fund.[1] Secondly, the Creative Commons License (CC-BY) and Attribution-Noncommerical No Derivative (CC-BY-NC-ND) provide authors with copyrights, a privilege that was previously held by publishers or societies under the subscription model.

To accommodate the new mandatory OA articles, traditional subscription-based journals with paywalls for access have turned into hybrid modes.[2] In this model, authors have the option to pay for their articles to be made OA in traditional journals. Additionally, well-established journals have launched sister OA journals that require all authors to pay article processing charges (APCs) for publication, regardless of their funding. The burden of this model has impacted a large section of authors who need a source of funding or institutional support to publish in paid journals. In this context, the Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery (IJPS) remains the best and possibly the only credible choice for authors to publish in plastic surgery journals without having to pay...."