Support Change

Most importantly, make sure you understand the facts about the conventional scholarly publishing system, and learn how scholarly communication is changing.

Make an informed decision about alternative low-cost journals, open access, self-archiving, and other new ways that scholars communicate.

If a wide audience is important to you, consider publishing in open access journals as a way to make your work accessible to all. You can influence the impact factor of open access journals by citing their articles in your own work.

Consider the many other ways that you can foster change as a researcher and author, a reviewer, an editor or editorial board member, a society member, a faculty member, and a teacher. Also bear in mind the numerous ways that you can support the gowing open access movement.