Recently, the Journal of Applied Bioanalysis carried out an online survey among readers and authors. The aim of the online survey was to learn about the readers views on the use of the open access publishing model. The online survey was conducted during the International Open Ac- cess Week 2015 (19-25 October 2015). The International Open Access Week is a global event, and was held in 2015 for the eighth year. The International Open Access Week is an opportunity event for the academic and research community to learn about open access publishing, share experiences, and participate in establishing and promot- ing the open access publishing model as future publish- ing model for academic and scholarly publications. Methodology The online survey was conducted by means of an online questionnaire containing twenty multiple choice survey questions. The online survey was send out to randomly selected subscribers (n=281) of the Journal of Applied Bioanalysis e-newsletter. The survey questions were di- vided into two different parts with each part having some speciic survey questions on the respondent’s profession- al proile and his/her views on open access publishing. The irst part of the survey dealt with the professional status, job title and publication experiences of the re- spondent. The second part was concerned with survey questions on open access publishing, among the survey questions were questions on the respondent’s views on open access article quality, article processing fees and advantages of open access publishing. The survey obtained a response rate among the invitees of 10.7% (n=30). From the col- lected survey data, the most signiicant obtained results are presented. Survey section on professional status/job title Survey results on the respondents professional status and job title were published in this journal recently [1]. In short, 16.1% of the respondents indicated to have a faculty (non-tenured) or other professional position while 32.3%, 35.5% and 16.1% of the respondents had a faculty (tenured), industry position or other profession- al status, respectively. Concerning the job description of the respondents, 62.5% had a job description as chemist/ scientist, 15.6%, 9.4%, and 12.6% as director/CEO/VP, manager/group head, and other job title, respectively. About 63.3% of the respondents indicated to publish at least 1-2 papers annually while 30% of the respondents publishes more (3-5 papers) and only 6.7% of the re- spondents publishes 5 or more papers annually. On the survey question on which factor(s) the respon- dent selects a journal for manuscript submission, the po- sition of the journal in the ield and the journal’s impact factor were the most and second most selected answers with 27.0% and 24.7%, respectively. Other answers were publishing experience with journal (15.7%), turn-around time (from submission to inal decision, 14.6%), peer-re- view process (5.6%) and other options (all less than 5%). On the survey question what respondents would do in case he/she requires a pay-walled full text of article, 50% of respondents indicated contacting the corresponding JOURNAL OF APPLIED BIOANALYSIS, April 2016, p. 46-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17145/jab.16.007 (ISSN 2405-710X) Vol. 2, No. 2 Correspondence: Present address: Inholland University of Applied Sciences, depart- ment of Life Sciences and Chemsitry, De Boelelaan 1109, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Phone: +31 681585826. E-mail: roland. meesters@inholland.nl 46 Open Access Week 2015 survey: results and conclusions Roland J.W. Meesters Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Amsterdam, the Netherlands † and Universidad de los Andes, Department of Chemistry, Bogotá D.C., Colombia. (Received: 10 March 2016, Revised 21 March 2016, Accepted 25 March 2016) COMMENTARY Keywords: open access week 2015, Journal of Applied Bioanalysis survey, open access publishing, bioanalysis