Proteins and Wave Functions: The Open Access Reviewer Rewards Program or "Reviews for OA"

"I wan't a partial APC voucher that I can use to publish open access in the journal. And I mean 'CC-license open access', not your 'pay-us-but-we-own-your-work-anyway' license.

How big a voucher, you ask?  I would say 5-10% of the CC-BY APC is reasonable.  Certainly, if I have reviewed 20 papers for a journal, I should be able to publish an accepted paper as OA free of charge there.

Obviously, it will take time to implement such a scheme.  I'll give them a year.  In 2018 I'll start saying 'no' to journals that don't offer some kind of scheme like this. Or give them another year, I dunno.

And just as obviously, this won't happen by itself. One plan I have is to suggest this to the editor when I submit my review, e.g. in the 'confidential statement to the editor' section that many journals have. I'll include the statement here when I write it."