Staying out of boxes

"Two different speakers [at Berlin8] reminded the audience that 80% of open access journals do not, in fact, charge article processing fees. Those journals seemed to be largely published by scholarly societies; that was certainly the case for the STM journals published in China....Dieter Stein from the University of Dusseldorf gave one example of a suite of successful open access journals in the field of linguistics. Stein is the editor of the e-Language portal for the Linguistics Society of America, which publishes six journals using the Open Journals System. Stein emphasized that neither author nor reader pays for publication in these journals. The society supports open access because it sees substantial benefits from publishing in that way. Stein indicated that the Society had seen a substantial increase in attendance at its annual conference, resulting in increased income, which it attributed to the broader dialogue about linguistics fostered by its OA journals....."