Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Open Access Articles

Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) generally affects childhood and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. In this disorder, normal functioning and health parameters in children and adults are disrupted. Children with ADHD have problems in concentrating or focusing. Adults with ADHD may have difficulty in managing time, working in organized manner, setting goals, and professionalism. They may also have problems in maintaining relationships, self-esteem, and addictions. Their symptoms include difficulty in being focused, difficulty controlling behavior, and hyperactivity. Open access to the scientific literature means the removal of barriers (including price barriers) from accessing scholarly work. There are two parallel “roads” 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 “self-archiving” (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.

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Last date updated on September, 2024