Good News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature Freely Available As Open Access. Bad News: They Must Pay $11,000 For Each One | Techdirt

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-11-27

Summary:

"The research will indeed by freely available to the world, but the authors' institutions have to cough up the massive sum of $11,000 for every article. That will make Nature compliant with Plan S, while ensuring that loads of money continues to roll in. It also means that educational institutions won't be saving any money when their researchers can read some Nature publishing papers for free, since they must pay out huge sums for their own academics to appear in these titles. This is a classic example of double-dipping -- what is more politely called "hybrid open access." Nature the publisher will get paid by institutions to make some articles freely available, but it will continue to be paid by subscribers to access material that has already been paid for. Plan S may mean that Nature and other publishers make even more money...."

Link:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201125/02325845767/good-news-academics-can-make-their-articles-published-top-journal-nature-freely-available-as-open-access-bad-news-they-must-pay.shtml

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oa.new oa.springer_nature oa.fees oa.hybrid oa.journals oa.objections oa.debates oa.plan_s oa.double_dipping oa.prestige

Date tagged:

11/27/2020, 11:14

Date published:

11/27/2020, 06:14