Sports Biomechanics Open Access Articles

Sports Biomechanics applies standards of mechanics to human development physically. Biomechanics is the investigation of the structure and function of biological systems, for example as humans, animals, plants, organs, and cells by method of mechanics. Biomechanics is nearly identified with designing, on the grounds that it frequently utilizes customary building sciences to break down natural frameworks. Some straightforward provisions of Newtonian mechanics or materials sciences can supply right rough guesses to the mechanics of numerous natural frameworks. 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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