Academic Publishing Keeps Getting More Expensive. Some Harvard Scholars Want to Make It Free. | News | The Harvard Crimson

"At Harvard, a dedicated group of scientists and librarians have tried to alleviate the costs of [APC-based] publishing — and the University has a history of backing efforts to move away from the pay-to-publish model entirely.

Thanks to a novel copyright arrangement that Harvard’s schools pioneered in 2008, affiliated researchers can deposit their papers in DASH, a database that makes them freely available to anyone in the world. Harvard Library has also launched the Harvard Open Journals Project, which provides funding for researchers to create their own open access journals — a prospect that may be cheaper than making work freely available in existing journals."