Creeping Open Access.
Posted by Alex Bienkowski on Aug 28th, 2007
2007
Aug 28
Online, a journal for online searchers, has a small note tucked away at the bottom of page 12 in the current issue (Sept-Oct). Oxford University Press publishes the Journal of Experimental Botany, and as of April 1, of this year, “articles are being published without any open access charge, if the the corresponding author’s institution has a current subscription to the journal.” It seems that publishers are trying out various ways to make peace with the OA movement, while waiting for it either to take off and become the dominant “paradigm” (I use that word reluctantly), or fail as a business model. I think Springer has an OA option for authors, at extra cost. Does anybody know of other publishers making similar provision?
