 How do authors benefit from open access?
If authors like that exist, at least they should take advantage of the access revolution. The dream of global free access can be a reality for them, even if most other authors hope to earn royalties and feel obliged to sit out this particular revolution. Open access is the name of the revolutionary kind of access these authors, unencumbered by a motive of financial gain, are free to provide to their readers. Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Copyright can also be a significant access barrier. If you have access to a work for reading but want to translate it into another language, distribute copies to colleagues, copy the text for mining with sophisticated software, or reformat it for reading with new technology, then you generally need the permission of the copyright holder. Removing permission barriers means that scholars are free to use or reuse literature for scholarly purposes. By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. But at the same time, all three allow at least one limit on user freedom: an obligation to attribute the work to the author.
 There is potential for more citations because of the relative accessibility of the work
 There is potential for more citations because of the relative accessibility of the work  Papers get published faster in open-access journals  It is easier to get published in an open-access journal than one with a paywall  Readership could increase because open-access journals advertise more accessibly