2015年6月30日星期二

Open Access (OA)


Today, I share you an article about Open Access, if you don't know exactly what is open access, then, good chance for you, today, you will know it!

1.What is Open Access?
Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles. OA is also increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters.

By making information freely available in this way, Open Access accelerates research and learning.

By reducing the barriers that restrict access to knowledge, Open Access maximizes the opportunity for publications to be read and for authors to be recognized for their contribution in their chosen field and beyond.

2. Benefits of Open Access
Open Access makes knowledge available to all, without the barrier of affordability and without restrictions on using it to inform and develop related areas of research.

Open Access enables unrestricted use of knowledge for teaching, conference presentations and lectures.

Open Access offers authors enhanced visibility and offers the potential for greater usage of their work and higher impact.

Open Access brings new audiences to scholarly content, helping expand readership.

Open access reduces the pressure on library budgets for purchasing books and journals and enables librarians to devote more time to connecting their users with high quality content.

3. Open Access and Article Processing Charge
The internet allows us to distribute knowledge more widely, more efficiency and at a lower cost than was previously possible. However, publishing still has costs that need to be covered – such as proof reading, copyediting, digital presentation and preservation, promotion and dissemination of your work.

With Open Access, authors (or their institutions or funders) pay an Article Processing Charge to cover these costs, ensuring their work is properly evaluated for quality and made easy to find, download and read.

Source:http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/info/openaccess.aspx#what

2015年6月29日星期一

Scientific Methodology

On the off chance that this were not the case then it ought to be evident to anybody that these people would be vastly improved served looking for capable ordinary method for treatment. Not kidnapping "authorities" and care groups where the topic of regardless of whether they were really snatched is overlooked and rather a group back tapping is founded as treatment. Undoubtedly, the main unmistakable aftereffect of every one of these specialists’ scientific current events and care groups endeavors has been the propagation and development of the riddle. Not a solitary step towards a determination of the issues they claim to experience has been taken. They wind up "surrendered" to their destiny of being abductees and confronting further snatchings.

In the event that these individuals must demand keeping on overlooking customary mental treatment where secrecy can be guaranteed and rather want to place themselves in the spotlight then they should likewise be willing to acknowledge that their cases will be investigated to the littlest point of interest. On the off chance that they genuinely wished to be accepted they would surely comprehend that they must be addressed. Conviction can't be constrained through intimidation or purchased through sympathy. It must be earned by quality of certainty or how well the story survives examination.
Focusing on what I'll freely call the mental edge I've seen what has all the earmarks of being a genuine inconsistency in the cases with respect to the mental dependability of these persons indicating to have been kidnapped. One of the first things we are told in writing steady of conviction is that these persons are free of any mental conditions or hypochondria which may identify with the conviction that they have been kidnapped.
Yet this is by all accounts negated by a percentage of the very defenders of examination which apparently underpins this controversy. The late John. E. Mack in his book "Snatchings" which is a scientific journals obviously expresses his astonishment at the quantity of abductees he talked with who originated from families with one or more alcoholic folks. He then says huge numbers of them originating from broken homes and communicating sentiments of passionate coldness and hardship inside of the family structure. He then states casually that a portion of the abductees feel that outsiders are their actual folks. The suggestions this presents appear to be verging on certain even to a layman yet he disregards these and rather goes ahead to estimate upon the conceivable ramifications this has for the gang.

To me, these and different cases, for example, these give stark disagreement to the declarations that no mental pathologies are available that could represent the snatching "background". It shows up as though the suggestions are disregarded for expecting the kidnapping situation is genuine and is a reason to be viewed as in charge of the expressed issues inside of the tolerant's family connections. In reality, no genuine inside and out mental examination of the patients is done in the cases chronicled in his books.