Some regular journals charge to make an article open access. It is their approach to open access. Other models exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Richard Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's ask: Who will pay for publication? taxpayer=no, tuition = no; > university = no; there is one more option that is adopted when open access > is required. Here's the notice at the website of a British journal: > http://journals.physoc.org/site/misc/publicaccess.xhtml > > "To assist authors whose funding agencies mandate public access to published > research findings sooner than 12 months after publication The Journal of > Physiology and Experimental Physiology, ...currently offer authors the > option of paying an open access fee to have their papers made freely > available upon publication. The fee is US$3,000." > > That is the author pays $3000 to the journal for each article it accepts. > > Fees at other journals mostly run from $1000 to $5000 (If you are a > graduate student living on $15,000 a year as a teaching assistant and you > need to publish to get a job, well there goes your lunch money. Two > articles?...that's rough) see the list of charges at major journals at > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html > > The history and sociology journals I know about hire grad students who will > lose their jobs if the journals' funding declines. > > Richard Jensen > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
