  In this transformative world, changes are happening in all the fields,
including scholarly communications are trending in the academic area of
publication and access to the resources, especially emerging the wave of open
access, open science and open research. The study aims to investigate the
digital publishing behaviour of manuscript authors. This study applied a
quantitative approach and survey questionnaire method. The researcher collected
the data from 251 authors, editors, and peer-reviewers from 45 countries
worldwide. The research mainly focuses on the importance, need, and author
preference for open access journals. Everyone cannot use and access
subscription-based journals; the critical reason is the cost of purchasing a
tremendous amount. As an independent researcher, developing countries and other
impoverished countries, researchers can give the utmost importance to open
access journals. The author also wishes to publish a journal in open access
only. The findings reveal that most authors like to publish digital and print
in both formats, with chargeless publications. Open access publishing has a
vital role with researchers, scholars, and students because accessing the
articles is costless. The researcher publishing the manuscript is more
important than the quality of the content also important in scholarly
publication. Nowadays, open-access peer-reviewed journals are also equal to the
paid journals.
