In celebration of ‘Open Access Week,' The Optical Society (OSA) applauds those who are working together to develop sustainable options for maximising research investments, increasing the influence of published research, and enhancing the advancement of scholarship. OSA is the publisher of 16 high-quality peer-reviewed journals, of which four are Open Access journals - Biomedical Optics Express, Optical Materials Express, and Optics Express and Photonics Research, a journal published in partnership with the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and Chinese Laser Press.
OSA has been a long-time supporter of Open Access, having launched its first Open Access journal in 1997. Currently 50 percent of the articles published by OSA appear in one of the Society's 'Gold' Open Access journals. Also, since its launch 16 years ago, Optics Express has become one of the most cited journals in the field of optics and is currently the 12th largest journal indexed by the Web of Science (2012 Journal Citation Report®. Thomson Reuters, 2013).
OSA has launched three additional high-quality peer-reviewed Open Access journals in the past four years and is set to debut its fifth journal in 2014.
