Re: Author-pays model: more common among subscription than open access journals

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

I am sure that Heather was not intending to be misleading but there are OA
journals and OA journals. I suspect that all or almost all OA journals that
have impact factors or aspire to have impact factors seek author payment and
this category includes all or almost all the journals from companies such as
BioMedCentral, Hindawi, or PLOS.

Anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 4:14 AM
Subject: Author-pays model: more common among subscription than open access
journals


> Recent comments on the list appear to be based on the myth that
> open access publishing is the same as the article processing fee
> or "author pays" model.
>
> Excerpt from a 2005 ALPSP-sponsored study by Kaufman-Wills, "The
> Facts about Open Access:
>
> "On the financial side, we were very surprised to find just how
> few of the Open Access journals raise any author-side charges at
> all; in fact, author charges are considerably more common (in the
> form of page charges, colour charges, reprint charges, etc) among
> subscription journals".  (From the Overview).  The report is
> available for free download from:
>
> http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=200&did=47&aid=270&st=&oaid=-1
>
> For more recent research illustrating that the vast majority of OA
> journals do not charge article processing fees, see Open Access News:
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/12/new-data-showing-that-most-oa-journals.html
>
> Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and
> does not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library
> Network or Simon Fraser University Library.
>
> Heather Morrison, MLIS
> The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
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>