And even in those that usually charge readers (such as Cell and the Lancet), paying a publication fee makes a paper available free immediately.Outsell, a Californian consultancy, estimates that open-access journals generated $172m in 2012.
Gold open access normally involves a publication fee, paid by the author or funder, Mr. Ayris said, which may be one reason why it accounts for only a fraction of scholarly publishing.
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We acknowledge support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI).
Open-access journals give free access to readers and pay their bills by charging scientists a publication fee, while traditional journals charge subscribers or libraries.
Broadly speaking, traditional journals earn revenue from subscriptions, while open-access journals charge authors a publication fee of hundreds to thousands of dollars.
For example, my own department averages about 15 publications per year, and with a publication fee of $2000 per article, our total cost would be $30,000 – much less than the approximately $100,000 we currently pay for chemical information.
They can keep the cash, donate it to a fund that helps cash-strapped scientists pay the journal's $875 publication fee, or contribute it to their own institution's open-access activities.
These journals have zero editorial credibility, and zero interest in fostering academic interchange and communication, but they are very willing to post slightly-prettied-up versions of scientists' manuscripts in exchange for a publication fee.
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