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OUP opens up author choice. 'Author pays' business model adopted for trial period, writes Mark Chillingworth.(Oxford University Press)
Oxford Journals, the journal publishing arm of Oxford University Press (OUP), is embracing open access publishing with the launch of Oxford Open, an "author pays" publishing model for 21 of its journals.
From July, authors will be given the choice of paying [pounds sterling]1,500 and publishing their articles online immediately under the Oxford Open scheme, or remaining with the traditional publishing process.
Journals involved in the scheme include: Human Molecular Genetics, Medical Law Review, Journal of Economic Geography, Health Promotion International, Journal of Refugee Studies, Bioinformatics and European Sociological Review.
Martin Richardson, managing director of OUP's Oxford Journals division, said: "Oxford Open is a logical extension to our current open access experiments, and will allow us to collect valuable first-hand data on the demand for OA by authors."
Charges will be discounted for institutions which subscribe to the titles that authors are submitting to. OUP will revise the subscription costs of the titles in 2007.
Open access champion Jan Velterop backed the OUP initiative, telling IWR that he believes Oxford Open is the most ...
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