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I have a couple questions due to lack of background and/or perspective in these matters: - What is the new business model that is forced upon these scientifi

• Vinnl 8y ago
  - There is no new business model enforced; that's up to the journals to figure out. However, the currently dominant model is an author-pays model, where authors pay a publishing fee ("Article Processing Charges", APCs) rather than readers paying a subscription fee. These funders explicitly free up funds to pay those fees, although this plan does include a stipulation to put a cap on those fees, since they tend to rise uncontrollably. (Although according to this article, Wellcome Trust will not be applying this cap, but will keep an eye on these fees itself.) - There is nothing in these plans that should affect the quality of the content. Open Access journals can maintain exactly the same system of peer review as their subscription-based equivalents.