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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).
Logo of the campaign. The Cost of Knowledge is a protest by academics against the business practices of academic journal publisher Elsevier.Among the reasons for the protests were a call for lower prices for journals and to promote increased open access to information.
Diamond open access is a term used to describe journals that have no article processing charges, and make articles available to read without restrictions. In 2020, diamond OA journals comprised 69% of the journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals, but published only 35% of the articles. [37]
Journals that publish open access without charging authors article processing charges are sometimes referred to as diamond [26] [27] [28] or platinum [29] [30] OA. Since they do not charge either readers or authors directly, such publishers often require funding from external sources such as the sale of advertisements , academic institutions ...
The Forum of Mathematics, an open access journals co-created by Timothy Gowers, was the first publication to explicitly claim to be a diamond journal: "For the first three years of the journal, Cambridge University Press will waive the publication charges. So for three years the journal will be what Marie Farge (who has worked very hard for a ...
Both open and closed journals are sometimes funded by the author paying an article processing charge, thereby shifting some fees from the reader to the researcher or their funder. Many open or closed journals fund their operations without such fees and others use them in predatory publishing.
Project DEAL (Projekt DEAL) is a consortium-like structure spearheaded by the German Rectors' Conference, on behalf of its fellow members in the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany [] and tasked with negotiating nationwide transformative open access agreements with the three largest commercial publishers of scholarly journals (Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley) for the benefit of ...
If CC BY, must pay Article Processing Charge for hybrid OA publication. [92] WikiJournal User Group: Unrestricted Unrestricted Unrestricted [93] Wiley: Unrestricted, except: Journal of Orthopaedic Research does not accept clinical research articles that have been shared as preprints. [94] [95] Unrestricted, except: