David Kaplan, the editor-in-chief of Geographical review / Q&A: The nature and state of academic publishing field – Versus

"...what are your views on open access policies?

Well I think open access is fine; publishers love them because it gives them a much bigger chunk of money than you are going to get. And they are always encouraging to that, my publisher does. I think it is expensive for most people, so if I think of my students, I wouldn’t be able to provide open access. Even if you have got grant money for it, grants are not going to provide open access funding. I know they do more in Finland but that is not necessarily available in United States. I would hate to have a situation where everybody’s expected to publish in open access but they don’t have the money to pay for it. I think we need a model where if people want open access they can get it. If they don’t they can still publish and not have to worry about paying too much money for it. So I guess that would be my dream…of overall academic journals.. But that is a good question, I haven’t thought as broadly that. I guess I have thought about my own journal, where I want to position that...."