NeuroDojo: Who paid for my open access articles?

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-01-21

Summary:

"A recurring concern from some researchers about open access is the cost to authors. This is an area of persistent misconceptions and a lot of fear. It’s a legitimate question of whether article processing charges create a Matthew effect, with labs with grants gaining an unfair advantage over those without grants. Or, worse, shutting out contributors entirely. This interests me, because by most standards, I am a scientific “have not.” And yet, I’ve published many of my articles open access for some years now. I did not have stand alone research grants in that time. How did I do it? It’s a mix. The most common situation was that the journal did not levy an article processing charge. In other words, these papers were free to me ..."

Link:

http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2015/01/who-paid-for-my-open-access-articles.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.gold oa.hybrid oa.fees oa.journals

Date tagged:

01/21/2015, 09:24

Date published:

01/21/2015, 04:24