Open Access Publishing Of Academic Journals And Development Strategy In China

Academic Journals is the most important spread medium in the academic, and the Journals traditional publishing model based on reader subscription has impelled the academic information dissemination and the development of science. From the 1970's, with commercial publishers entering the academic journals market, academic journals price grows continually, which bring "price crises" of journals. At the same time, the electronic journals which are controlled by commercial publishers do not meet academic communication. Open Access Publishing has provided a new choice for journals publish. The article study the basic concept, the publishing model of open access publishing, and analyze the influence of OAP, bring forward some strategies which are based on academic circumstance in China. The thesis includes five parts as follows:Firstly, it introduces the background and meaning of the study, also summarizes status in quo of related research both at home and aboard, also presents outline of the thesis for reader.Secondly, it introduces the defines of Budapest Open Access Initiative and Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and analyze the concept and characters of OAP from the angle of academic publishing, it provides two approaches of OA, suggesting open access journals is OAP of academic journals authentically, at last, it compares the traditional academic publishing and OAP from the different aspects.Thirdly, it is about academic publishing model of academic journals and correlative questions, based on open extent and open time of academic journals ,integrating the characters of OAP, it put forwards three OA publishing model of academic journals, these are Full OAP model, Delayed OAP model and Choice OAP model, and analyzing the representative cases, at last, it puts forwards some shortages of OAP at present.Fourthly, it is about the influence of OAP of academic journals, as a new academic publishing model, OAP has affected greatly the primary participant in the academic society ,such as researchers ,libraries, research founding agencies, publishers, at the same time, OAP have influenced traditional publishing market greatly, the hybrid academic publishing market will come into being.Fifthly, it provides strategies of OAP of academic journals in China. It gives some advantages and disadvantages of OAP by studying the academic circumstance of Chinese. In relation to status in quo of OAP in China, the parts put forwards some strategies.