Among the open-access journals, Journal of Hotel & Business Management stands in the top 10. One of the core concepts of Business management is the Human Resource Management. Human Resources Management is basically deals with the work force of an organization. The Human Resource department in a company is considered most important as the Human Resources define the type, size and behavioral aspects of a work force that run the company. The head of the Human Resource Management Team is the HR Manager who takes the final decision regarding all matters concerning recruitment, employee welfare, employee grievances, employee payroll and benefits, etc. The earliest implementation of Human Resources Management was during 1856-1915 by Frederick Taylor who in order to improve the economic efficiency of large businesses like manufacturing industries, conducted research to improve productivity among the labor force.
Open access to the scientific literature means the removal of barriers (including price barriers) from accessing scholarly work. There are two parallel roads towards open access: Open Access articles and self-archiving. Open Access articles are immediately, freely available on their Web site, a model mostly funded by charges paid by the author (usually through a research grant). The alternative for a researcher is self-archiving (i.e., to publish in a traditional journal, where only subscribers have immediate access, but to make the article available on their personal and/or institutional Web sites (including so-called repositories or archives)), which is a practice allowed by many scholarly journals.
Open Access raises practical and policy questions for scholars, publishers, funders, and policymakers alike, including what the return on investment is when paying an article processing fee to publish in an Open Access articles, or whether investments into institutional repositories should be made and whether self-archiving should be made mandatory, as contemplated by some funders .
Last date updated on July, 2014