On 23 May 2012 14:47, Richard Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Making them pay $1000 to $5000 so their
> article is open access is a very unwise way to promote their scholarship.
> (Few if any prestigious history journals are now open access; this seems
> more an issue in sciences.)

Some open access journals waive the fees for any authors who are not
able to pay, removing this argument as a downside to the producer pays
model for open access.

In the user pays model there are similar fees *per institution* for
having the privilege of limited *access* to some single journals for a
single year, so the argument can easily be reversed. I guess you
already know what happens when you actually try to download all of the
articles for a journal you have *access* to on JSTOR.

Peter

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