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 ..."