Paying for open access publication charges
This guidance gives advice on paying for open access publication charges in journals and sets out recommendations for higher education institutions, publishers, research funders, and authors.
The RIN and Universities UK have produced this guide in response to the requirements of research funders for greater access to research outputs. Open access journals have become a growing part of the scholarly publishing landscape over the past few years, but the arrangements for paying publication fees have grown up haphazardly and are not standardised. Fees are sometimes met from unallocated funds available to researchers from research grants or other sources, but sometimes have been met from researchers own pockets.
This work follows on from the RINs earlier guidance Acknowledgement of funders in research journals (February 2008).
The working group on this guidance included representatives from the library, publishing and research administrator communities, and they will continue to work on addressing the issues raised by the recommendations in this guidance.
The guidance and briefing are available below.
Hard copies of the guidance and briefing are also available, email contact@rin.ac.uk
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Anonymous said on 12 December 2011 at 5:49pm:
Absolutely unacceptable. With all of the grant/government money available for education and research,Prilosec dosage researchers should never have to pay to get their research published in a journal
Anonymous said on 14 September 2011 at 4:26am:
The charges are too high and its unacceptable.I thin this kind of practices should be stopped in the furture.THe person who has more potential his article should be puclished instead of the one who is paying higher money.
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Anonymous said on 23 July 2011 at 2:37pm:
If the costs are too high, there is a danger that the spread of information properly.
Anonymous said on 06 April 2011 at 10:38am:
In hard economic occasions, the library can cancel journals with out infringing on their faculty’s ability to publish and express themselves. We call this “academic freedom.”
In the indirect author publication charges model, it is not possible to take part in fiscal restraint without impacting faculty’s academic flexibility. In the event the library/institution is unwilling to deny any publication costs since it fears the effect it will have on academic flexibility, then it will be left in a worse financial place than within the subscription model.
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Anonymous said on 27 January 2011 at 9:17pm:
Unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable. With all of the grant/government money available for education and research, researchers should never have to pay to get their research published in a journal. Especially out of thier own pockets. I could be speaking out of turn, seeing as how I am not familiar with what is considered common practice as far as publication is concerned. It’s just that the journals might as well be classified ads at that point. Researchers provide society with education and information that is of benefit to everyone. I say if the merit of their work is of the caliber to be published, the journals should seek grant money in order to publish the body of work. For journals(or any other academic publication) to expect contributors to foot the bill is, well, out of line.
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