Open Access Initiative | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic

"The advent of online publication has greatly improved access to scientific content on a global scale. This has led to calls from the academic community for research to be made freely available online immediately upon publication, without the barrier of paid subscription to access. 

In response to these calls, and following consultation with journal contributors, Oxford University Press and the Editors of Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) launched an Open Access initiative for NAR in 2005. This means that it is no longer necessary to hold a subscription in order to read current NAR content online.  There are substantial costs associated with publishing a high quality journal such asNAR, for example in the administration of the editorial process, production of the published version, and development of online functionality. Under a subscription-based model, these costs are primarily covered by charging libraries and individuals for access to the journal's content. Under NAR's Open Access model, we aim to cover the costs of publication primarily through a combination of author charges and institutional payments.

You can read more about OUP’s open access initiatives, including NAR, in the following article: Claire Bird (2008) Oxford Journals' adventures in open access, Learned Publishing, 21, 200–208 (for a copy of this article please email us at Open Access.)"