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Byline: Kim Thomas
Experimental subs drive OA at OJ
Kim Thomas
A new open access (OA) model based on whether an author's institution has a subscription to the Journal of Experimental Botany has been launched by its publisher Oxford Journals. Articles published in the journal will be made freely available on an OA basis to the author's institution, provided it has a subscription to the journal.
"The idea was it would enable us to build subscriptions in a climate where subscription numbers are inevitably declining, and have been for five years or more," said Jerry Roberts, editor-in-chief of the journal.
The decision follows a pilot which offered open access for articles if authors paid a [pounds sterling]250 fee for each paper.
Under the new model, authors who want their articles to be made freely available online, but whose institutions do not have a subscription to the journal, have to pay [pounds ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Experimental subs drive OA at OJ.