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Free and Subscription JSTOR [89] Jurn: Multidisciplinary Jurn is a free-to-use online search tool for finding and downloading free full-text scholarly works. In 2014 Jurn expanded beyond open access journals in the arts and humanities, to also index open journals in ecology, science, biomedical, business and economics. Jurn is actively curated ...
True open-access journals can be split into two categories: diamond or platinum open-access journals , which charge no additional publication, open access or article processing fees gold open-access journals , which charge publication fees (also called article processing charges , APCs).
Article processing fees for journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (2019). Journals use a variety of ways to generate the income required to cover publishing costs (including editorial costs, any costs of administering the peer review system), such as subsidies from institutions [7] and subscriptions.
Rather than making journal articles accessible through a subscription business model, all academic publications could be made free to read and published with some other cost-recovery model, such as publication charges, subsidies, or charging subscriptions only for the print edition, with the online edition gratis or "free to read".
The network founded in early 2018 in order to promote free, open access journals, [2] [3] a publishing model that is sometimes called diamond or platinum open access. [4] Such journals are typically smaller than equivalent commercial journals (often supported by academic societies). [5]
Concerns about cost and open access have led to the creation of free-access journals such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS) family and partly open or reduced-cost journals such as the Journal of High Energy Physics. However, professional editors still have to be paid, and PLoS still relies heavily on donations from foundations to cover ...
[5] [6] Kenneth Frazier, [7] librarian at the University of Wisconsin, proposed that attendees at the meeting develop a fund to create a new publication model for academic journals wherein many libraries contributed to that fund, and from that fund, the contributors would create new publications on some model which lowered the costs of all ...
Subscribe to Open (S2O) is an economic model used by peer-reviewed scholarly journals to provide readers with open access (OA) to the journal’s content, without charging costs to authors. S2O converts journals that have a traditional subscription model to open access. [1] [2] [3]