Some regular journals charge to make an article open access.
It is their approach to open access. Other models exist.
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Richard Jensen <rjensen(a)uic.edu> 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
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