Pay What You Want as a Pricing Model for Open Access Publishing? | Opinion | Communications of the ACM

Amyluv's bookmarks 2017-10-25

Summary:

"The open access publishing movement has received strong support from scientists, lawmakers, and funding institutions. Many publishers are reacting to this demand by offering open access journals.7 However, there is an ongoing debate on how open access publishing models should be financed.2,4 Most open access journals that rely on the so-called "gold open access model"8—which makes the research output immediately available from the publisher—let authors of accepted papers pay article processing charges (APCs) of several hundred to several thousand U.S. dollars.1 However, APCs are often criticized for potentially excluding researchers with limited funds.3"

Link:

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/articles/222177-pay-what-you-want-as-a-pricing-model-for-open-access-publishing/fulltext

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Tags:

oa.new oa.business_models oa.funding oa.publishing

Date tagged:

10/25/2017, 22:24

Date published:

10/25/2017, 18:24