Why Women in Academia Should Embrace Open Access

"As digital scholarship advances, the individual article is becoming as important as the journal it is published in. While studies show that women generally publish fewer articles than their male counterparts, it is also known that they tend to receive more citations for the articles they do publish. An important factor for an article to be cited is that it is accessible to a large pool of readers.

When women publish in Open Access journals, their work is made visible to the widest possible audience...."