{"id":18712,"date":"2016-05-23T14:03:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/video\/open-access-myth-versus-fact\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:54:23","slug":"open-access-myth-versus-fact","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/open-access-myth-versus-fact","title":{"rendered":"Open access: Myth versus fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arguably, open access to research is one of the hottest topics of discussion among academics and publication industry professionals. Open access publishing offers several benefits to researchers, the most significant one being making their research accessible to the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But a lot of researchers and authors have reservations about making their work freely available online. Their misconceptions about open access publishing could prevent them from opting for it. So, we bring you\u00a0the top six myths about open access publishing and clear these misunderstandings for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/a-young-researchers-guide-to-open-access-publishing\">A young researcher&#8217;s guide to open access publishing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/the-basics-of-open-access-publishing\">Infographic &#8211;\u00a0The basics of open access publishing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/a-skeptics-guide-to-open-access\">Interview &#8211;\u00a0A skeptic&#8217;s guide to open access<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-18712","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top open access myths | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This video presents and clarifies the top six myths about open access publishing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/open-access-myth-versus-fact\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top open access 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