 How do authors benefit from open access?
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. 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. Authors who work for royalties have reason to compromise and settle for the smaller audience of paying customers.
 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