New SPIE open access publishing program wins strong participation
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-10-19
Summary:
"An author-choice open access publishing program for journals launched this year by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is gaining strong participation from authors and increasing the volume of freely accessible, peer-reviewed optics and photonics research literature as a result ... The SPIE program allows authors to have their journal articles open access immediately on publication in the SPIE Digital Library, with payment of modest voluntary page charges, Pepper explained. In addition, authors choosing this program retain copyright through a Creative Commons CC-BY license ... Authors selecting the open-access program pay $100 per published journal page for two-column journals or $60 per published page for single-column journals, Pepper said. These payments by authors and their employers or other funders of their research enable SPIE to hold down subscription prices and maximize access to the research. Authors affected by public access mandates in the United Kingdom by the Research Councils UK as well as in the United States by the National Institutes of Health and now more broadly applied by the Office of Science and Technology Policy are among those who benefit from the new program ..."