Open Access Publishing Services | Linguistics in Open Access

"Open access publishing is often said to be the future of academic journals, but the actual move from a subscription model to an open access model is not easily achieved. An important step towards fair open access has recently been taken by a number of editors, along with the Radboud University, resulting in the Linguistics in Open Access foundation (LingOA). The aim of this foundation is to provide a platform for linguistic journals to make the move from the traditional subscription model to an open access one. Several international linguistics journals, including Laboratory Phonology and the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, are currently moving from their traditional publisher to a new open access publisher, along with their entire editorial staff, authors, and peer reviewers. LingOA facilitates this radical move by paying for the Article Processing Charges (APCs) of the articles published in these journals during the next five years. The journals will be published by Ubiquity Press, with the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) as a long-term sustainability partner ..."