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Open-Access Journals: The Future of Scientific Publishing?

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The open-access publishing initiative started in the 1990s with the introduction of the World Wide Web that made the Internet available around the globe. The open-access publishing concept entails that scientific content is provided online to readers, free of charge. The “Public Library of Science” (PloS) was one of the first nonprofit open-access platforms launched with tremendous success in the early twenty-first century. Open-access publishing provides several unprecedented advantages compared to standard print journals. This includes the timely, unrestricted, free access to scientific knowledge by any reader with access to the Internet, by eliminating financial barriers related to expensive journal subscriptions and by reducing the usual time delay of several months (or years) from the time a scientific discovery is made until the information is available to the end user.

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Conflict of Interest

Both authors are editors on the editorial board of the open-access journal “Patient Safety in Surgery.” The authors declare no other conflict of interest.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, University of Colorado, School of Medicine and Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA

    Philip F. Stahel & Todd VanderHeiden

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado, School of Medicine and Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA

    Philip F. Stahel

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Correspondence to Philip F. Stahel .

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  1. Associate Director of Service, Director of Orthopaedic Trauma and Research, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

    Cyril Mauffrey

  2. Departement Chirurgie Orthopédique, Clinique Chirurgicale St Michel, Toulon, France

    Marius M. Scarlat

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Stahel, P.F., VanderHeiden, T. (2018). Open-Access Journals: The Future of Scientific Publishing?. In: Mauffrey, C., Scarlat, M. (eds) Medical Writing and Research Methodology for the Orthopaedic Surgeon. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69350-7_10

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