Many scholars think getting
published in the journals who ask for publication fee or subscription is not
the good idea. Well, let me tell you, that many prestigious Journals charge
publication fee though they are open access Journals. For instance I am giving
the list
1)
Oxford Open Pricing
In the majority of our journals, authors have the option to
publish their paper under the Oxford Open initiative;
for a charge, their paper will be made freely available online immediately upon
publication. The charges for optional open access publication vary from journal
to journal, between £1000-£2500. Please see the Instructions to Authors pages of individual
journals to find out the applicable charge.
Our charge of $1000 per published article is among the lowest
levied by any open-access journal in the biological sciences and illustrates
the commitment of AoB PLANTS to provide an economical means for rapidly
publishing research to a global audience.
2)
Springer
Open Choice – Your way to open access
For the majority of our journals Springer operates
an open access program called Springer Open Choice. In addition to the range of
fully open access journals published under theSpringerOpen
brand, Open Choice allows authors to decide how
their articles are published in the leading and highly respected
subscription-based journals that Springer publishes.
Choosing open access means making your journal
article freely available to anyone, at any time in exchange for payment of an
open access publication fee (US$ 3000/EUR 2200; excl.
VAT).
$1,850 -
$3,000
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$1350,
$2250,$2900
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Nature
Publishing Group
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$1,350
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Institute
of Physics (IOP)
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$1,350 -
$1,440
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$0 -
$1,500
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Genetics
Society of America
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$1,650 -
$1,950
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Ecological
Society of America
|
$1,250
(ESA members), $1,500 (non-members)
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$1,695 -
$1,865
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Cell Press
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$5000
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Cambridge
University Press
|
$750
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Open Access provides the means to
maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research
outputs. Open Access
is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the
severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements.
It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the
literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books
for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that
scholars normally give away free to be published and scholars are supposed to
bear the expenses of publication and making contents open access –
peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various
kinds.
Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ) defines Open Access as The journals that use a funding model that does not
charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition of
"open access", we support the rights of users to "read,
download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these
articles"
What does BOAI mean by "open
access"?
Here is the
definition of "open access" from the BOAI: "By 'open access'
to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet,
permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or
link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as
data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial,
legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access
to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution,
and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors
control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly
acknowledged and cited."
Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Definition of Open Access Publication
An Open Access Publication is one that meets the following two
conditions:
- The
author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free,
irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to
copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make
and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible
purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right
to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
- A
complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a
copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic
format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one
online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly
society, government agency, or other well-established organization that
seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability,
and long-term archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is
such a repository).
2. Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to
provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use
of the published work, as they do now.
Berlin
Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Definition
of an Open Access Contribution
Establishing
open access as a worthwhile procedure ideally requires the active commitment of
each and every individual producer of scientific knowledge and holder of
cultural heritage. Open access contributions include original scientific
research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital
representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia
material.
The
author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a
free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use,
distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute
derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to
proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide
the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the
published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of
printed copies for their personal use.
A
complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy
of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format
is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using
suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is
supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society,
government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable
open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term
archiving.
An alternative to the subscription model of
journal publishing is the Open access journal model, also known as
"author-pays" or "paid on behalf of the author", where a
publication charge is paid by the author, his university, or the agency which
provides his research grant. The online distribution of individual
articles and academic journals then takes place without charge to readers and
libraries. Most Open access journals remove all the financial, technical,
and legal barriers that limit access to academic materials to paying
customers. The Public Library of Science and BioMed
Central are prominent examples of this model.
Open access has been criticized on quality grounds, as the desire to obtain publishing fees could cause the journal to relax the standard of peer review. It may be criticized on financial grounds as well, because the necessary publication fees have proven to be higher than originally expected. Open access advocates generally reply that because open access is as much based on peer reviewing as traditional publishing, the quality should be the same (recognizing that both traditional and open access journals have a range of quality). It has been argued that good science done by academic institutions who cannot afford to pay for open access might not get published at all, but most open access journals permit the waiver of the fee for financial hardship or authors in underdeveloped countries. Moreover, all authors have the option of self-archiving their articles in their institutional repositories in order to make them open access whether or not they publish in an open access journal.
Open access has been criticized on quality grounds, as the desire to obtain publishing fees could cause the journal to relax the standard of peer review. It may be criticized on financial grounds as well, because the necessary publication fees have proven to be higher than originally expected. Open access advocates generally reply that because open access is as much based on peer reviewing as traditional publishing, the quality should be the same (recognizing that both traditional and open access journals have a range of quality). It has been argued that good science done by academic institutions who cannot afford to pay for open access might not get published at all, but most open access journals permit the waiver of the fee for financial hardship or authors in underdeveloped countries. Moreover, all authors have the option of self-archiving their articles in their institutional repositories in order to make them open access whether or not they publish in an open access journal.
