Systemic Lupus Erythematosis is a chronic autoimmune disorder of the connective tissue and blood vessels. With the active disease usually demonstrates antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and anti-double strand DNA (Anti-dsDNA) autoantibodies aganist various components of cell nucleus leading to inflammation, vasculitis and immune complex deposition. The immune complex deposition along with complement activation could be the cause of lupus nephritis, that frequently accompanied with hypocomplementemia. Open access to the scientific literature means the removal of barriers (including price barriers) from accessing scholarly work. There are two parallel âroadsâ towards open access: Open Access articles and self-archiving. Open Access articles are immediately, freely available on their Web site, a model mostly funded by charges paid by the author (usually through a research grant). The alternative for a researcher is âself-archivingâ (i.e., to publish in a traditional journal, where only subscribers have immediate access, but to make the article available on their personal and/or institutional Web sites (including so-called repositories or archives)), which is a practice allowed by many scholarly journals.
Open Access raises practical and policy questions for scholars, publishers, funders, and policymakers alike, including what the return on investment is when paying an article processing fee to publish in an Open Access articles, or whether investments into institutional repositories should be made and whether self-archiving should be made mandatory, as contemplated by some funders.
Last date updated on September, 2024