UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Open access journals remove price and many permission barriers for readers by making articles freely available on the internet. They often use Creative Commons or similar licences that allow broad reuse with attribution. ICT infrastructures such as institutional repositories and online platforms make open access feasible at scale. Thus, the journals described are open access journals.

Option A:
Option A is correct because open access is defined by free online availability and permissive reuse conditions, matching the characteristics given.

Option B:
Option B, impact factor, measures citation frequency of journals and is not a type of access model.

Option C:
Option C, peer reviewed, describes the quality control process, which may apply to both open access and subscription journals.

Option D:
Option D, predatory, journals charge authors fees without proper editorial standards and are considered unethical, which is not implied by simply being free to read.