Peer Review Week 2023, held this year from September 25-29, marks a significant milestone in the world ethical academic publishing. This annual event, celebrated globally, brings together researchers, publishers, editors, and reviewers to highlight the pivotal role of peer review in maintaining the quality and integrity of academic research.

IGI Global, a leading international academic publisher for over 35 years, is proud to announce the establishment of four new open access journals, adding to its distinguished portfolio of nearly 200 open access journals in their open access journal program.

Securing funding for open access processing charges (APCs) is of paramount importance when considering the submission of a manuscript to an open access publication like one of IGI Global’s nearly 200 open access journals included in their Open Access Journal Program.

IGI Global, a leading medium-sized independent international academic publisher, has continued its collaboration with Carolina Consortium, a large group of diverse libraries, to provide a new opt-in for Carolina Consortium member institutions to set up Open Access Agreements with IGI Global to support their faculty in publishing under OA in IGI Global’s full portfolio of 175+ highly cited (Web of Science SCIE and SSCI and more) OA journals.

IGI Global, a leading medium-sized independent international academic publisher of scholarly reference sources, has continued its collaboration with the the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), a large group of diverse libraries, to provide a new opt-in for GWLA member institutions to set up an Open Access Agreements with IGI Global to support their faculty in publishing under OA in IGI Global’s full portfolio of 175+ highly cited (Web of Science SCIE, SSCI, and more) OA journals.

One of IGI Global’s premier open access journals, the International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR), aims to provide a platform for academics and researchers to demonstrate their expertise and knowledge in areas of information science, information retrieval, and computer science.

One of IGI Global’s esteemed journals in the field of education, the International Journal of Technology-Enabled Student Support Services (IJTESSS), endeavors to create a networked approach of synergy between technology and student support services and its management for sustainable educational development and competency enhancement.

It has become clear that with the rise of many new dynamics surrounding the open sharing of content, many do not fully understand what the foundation of Open Science is and how key movements such as Open Access can benefit them.

The misconceptions that many researchers and those in the academic community have about the open access movement continue to grow as open access publishing expands.