Career or Open Access? – Jan Kunnas Blog[i]

"A survey conducted in 2010 found that 89 percent of the 38 000 active researchers that answered the survey are convinced that open access is beneficial for their research field, directly improving the way the scientific community work. Still only 8—10 percent of articles are published yearly in open access journals (Dallmeier‐Tiessen et al., 2011). One of the main advantages of open access journals is that they make original scientific research evenhandedly available to everyone with access to the Internet without discrimination between scholars with secured university positions, independent scholars and the general public. Access to journals beyond your own discipline, is also a prerequisite for multidisciplinary endeavors."