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That's what I thought at first, but the language from the original post seemed ambiguous—that it could only be published in Open Access Journals, and I also cou

by markbao 12y ago

That's what I thought at first, but the language from the original post seemed ambiguous—that it could only be published in Open Access Journals, and I also couldn't find OA costs for Cell or Science. I did find this page from Elsevier, though, and it looks like it ranges from $500 to $5,000: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-options http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-option... Thanks for the first-hand knowledge about Sage. Presumably, though, at a one-time price of $1,500–$5,000, publishers e.g. Elsevier weren't making much from keeping them closed-access in the first place, were they? Not sure if the trend of more APCs going from grant funders to publishers is a good one, but probably better that the grant funders pay than those who can't afford access.

dougmccune 12y ago
Not sure what you mean by "weren't making much from keeping them closed-access". Paywall publishers earn the bulk of their revenue from charging academic libraries subscriptions to the journal content. This subscription revenue can only exist if the content is not freely available to all. So there's definitely a big pile of cash that keeping articles closed access brings in. The worry about having OA articles isn't that you might miss out on the $30 pay per view charge that you or me run into when we hit the paywall, that's almost inconsequential from a revenue standpoint. It's the worry that they won't be able to charge a library a yearly subscription fee.