Re:AAS Journals Will Switch to Open Access
by leephillips on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:09PM
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Page fees are usually paid out of the grant. Some science journals have, in the past, waived page charges for people not supported by grants or institutions, or who just couldn’t pay, sometimes at the cost of slower processing of the article.
Re:AAS Journals Will Switch to Open Access
by OmicronCeti on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:50PM
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I would like to meet one of those journals. Every journal I've published with has been a 'pay first, then we publish' model.
Re:AAS Journals Will Switch to Open Access
by leephillips on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @05:07PM
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“APCs are waived for authors from developing countries that APS offers free online access to under the SRKS Program.”:
https://journals.aps.org/pra/authors#pubcharges
“submission in some electronic formats qualifies for a publication charge discount (Physical Review Letters) or waiver (Physical Review A, B, C, D, E, Applied, Fluids). Acceptable formats for the discount or waiver are currently REVTeX (preferred), LaTeX, Harvmac, or MSWord”: https://journals.aps.org/pre/authors/submission-faq#discount
So part of it is the university just needs to figure out how to appropriately reallocate it's resources?
I wonder how often the university employers of article authors pay these publication fees, and if those budgets are going up? (If university library subscription fees are not going down, then that's another sort of mystery to look into).