What is open access?
Open access means everything published in ITECH journals, books and conferences is immediately available online for free. Read it, download it, print it, copy it —all use is fair use, so long as the original authors and source are credited.
Who else promotes open access?
ITECH is a world’s first robotics & automation open access platform, there are other open access platforms, but in the area of medicine, physics and biology. Currently Germany's Max-Planc Society, the UK Wellcome Trust, the French CNRS, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute all encourage their funded researchers to make their peer-reviewed articles publicly available.Over the past two years, the publisher BioMed Central has set up 90 electronic journals adopting this model. The two new journals planned by the Public Library of Science (a pressure group set up to promote open access to the world's primary research literature) will be funded this way, and several existing journals are likely to begin experiments over the next year.
What benefits bringt open access?
The purpose of thus maximizing public access to research findings online is that this in turn maximizes its visibility, usageand impact which in turn not only maximizes its benefits to researchers and their institution in terms of prestige, prizes, salary, and grant revenue but it also maximizes its benefits to research itself (and hence to the society that funds it) in terms of research dissemination, application and growth, hence research productivity and progress. This is why open access is both optimal and inevitable.
Is open access compatible with print?
Yes. Open access is online access, but it does not exclude print access to the same works. All articles found in INRA database exists in print version in our journals, books, tutorials and other products.
How can I get printed versions of the INRA publications?
You can subscribe yourself on any journal or buy a single copy of the journal or book. The easiest way is to contact us directly.
Are ITECH publications peer reviewed?
Yes - all material published in ITECH publications have been fully peer-reviewed. One of ITECH main aims is commitment to quality of publications. We are continuously working to satisfy this aim.
Is open access compatible with high standards and high quality?
Yes. The quality of scientific journals is a function of the quality of their editors, editorial boards, and referees, which in turn affect the quality of the authors who submit articles to them. Open-access journals can have exactly the same quality controls working for them that traditional journals have. The main reason is that the people involved in the editorial process, and the standards they use, do not depend on the medium (print or electronic) or the cost (priced or free) of the publication.
How long will it take to peer review my manuscript?
The publications published by ITECH aim to provide a service that is faster than traditional ones, without compromising the quality of the peer review process. Many manuscripts accepted go through the peer review process in two months or less. Every effort is made to ensure that manuscripts are reviewed efficiently and to a high quality. The exact length of time will depend on many factors, such as whether peers agree to review a manuscript, and how quickly they submit their reports.
Can I submit my paper to ITECH Journals?
Yes. ITECH journals are peer reviewed. Originality, creativity and cross-disciplinary approach or perspectives are strongly encouraged.
Can I submit my material for ITECH book?
No. Only selected authors will be called to contribute in ITECH books.
How you select ITECH book author?
ITECH authors are selected exclusively based on the researchers publication history, quality and relevance of research in the corresponding field and ISI record.
Can I republish the paper by ITECH?
No. We are not willing to republish papers. Such behaviour would break all etical norms. Furthermore all ITECH publications are fully searchable, free by anyone, anywhere in the world. On that way materials published by ITECH are transparent.
Can I self-archive my paper published exclusively by ITECH ?
Yes. You are still copyright holder. We encourage our authors to dessimenate their work beyound INRA platform. Your paper live from readers. Internet is the best way to reach broadest audience fast.
What about copyright?
The author holds the copyright before and after the publishing. Always. The paper/work/contribution is your intelactual property and NOT from the publisher. In the past there was a redicluos develepment in the copyriht regulations as authors primarily concern was to publish thepaper and he/she was prepare to signe such agreements leaving all right to the publisher. ITECH takes a different way.
A part of ITECH Copyright Form:
"Each of the Author(s) retains the following rights:
- The right to copy, to republish, to revise the chapter, to re-use any portion of the chapter in all forms of media, now or hereafter known requires proper ITECH citation and no permission and/or a fee.
- All other proprietary rights to the work such as patent.
Do you really believe that open access resources are free?
Open-access literature is not without costs to produce. But that does not foreclose the possibility of making it free of charge for readers and users. Open access is free of charge to readers, but it does not exclude priced access to print versions of the same works. Because print editions are expensive to produce, they have to be priced.
But this is only the switch from paying for access to paying for dissemination.
Currently subscribers to journals, mostly academic libraries, pay for access to scientific information. In the new model, authors (or, more likely, those who employ them or fund their research) would pay the costs of peer reviewing and electronically disseminating their articles. This one off processing charge would ensure that the article was freely available to all, forever.Even if this switch from paying for access to paying for dissemination resulted in no financial savings within scientific publishing, it would be worth doing, as the end result would be availability to all, instead of only to those who can afford subscriptions. |
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How can I find the relevant articles ?
The ITECH site is fully searchable, free for anyone, anywhere in the world. There is no eaven registration needed.
Fair Use
Users are free to read, print, download and use the content or part of it so long as the original author(s) and source are correctly credited.
Author Responsibilities
The ITECH distributes its publications throughout the world and wants to ensure that the material submitted to its publications is properly available to the readership of those publications. Authors must ensure that their chapter(s) meets the requirements, including provisions covering originality, authorship, author responsibilities and author misconduct.
It is the responsibility of the authors, not the ITECH, to determine whether disclosure of their material requires the prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it.
Statements and opinions expressed in the chapter are these of the author(s) and not those of the editors or the ITECH. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapter. ITECH assumes no responsibility or liability for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained inside the chapter. |