SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION ON THE WEB: AN INVESTIGATION OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE

The study focuses on the Investigation and analysis of open access journals of access and dissemination of scholarly communication in research activities for medical science. It also highlights the open access has been an important catalyst for changing models in Scholarly communication system. It further explains how open access benefits the scholars, and libraries, thereby giving scholars barrier-free access to the literature they need, and giving authors larger reader-base and greater impact. It benefits the scholars and the libraries, they should work together to bring open access to the mainstream. This paper scholarly communication examines open access journals from medical science