The open access road supported by UK and its business model-博客-科学网手机版

"The main drivers of open access have the interventions and policies of research funders and policy-makers, andthe growth and maturity of the open access publishing sector, and entrepreneurial activity which has increased the supply of credible open access journals to authors. Research funder policies have likely been the most important factor in creatingan environment for open access. A key obstacle to wider adoption is funding thetransition. For individual institutions, adopting a (national or local) policyin favour of Gold open access would increase their costs via APCs while theywere still paying for the continuing subscription based journals. The same is true at a national level, if a country adopts a policy favouring Gold open access significantly in advance of the rest of the world.

In a word, open access is a commercial activity. As open access has grown in scaleand matured, and has expanded to disciplines in which research funding is notas important as in the experimental sciences, it has become clear that a single simple business model will not suit all situations. While the basic APC model remains important, a substantial number of variations on this theme have emerged, as well as growing interest in non-APC models."