University Funds To Support Open-access Journals
Some universities have funds designed to pay publication fees of fee-based open-access journals. Of these, some will pay publication fees of hybrid open access journals. However, policies about such payments differ. The Open Access Directory provides a list of university funds that support open-access journals, and provides information about which funds will pay fees of hybrid OA journals.
A report on work carried out by the University of Nottingham since 2006 to introduce and manage an institutional open-access fund has been published by Stephen Pinfield in Learned Publishing (Jan 2010). In this article, the author comments that: "As publishers’ income has increased from OA fees in the hybrid model, there has been little or no let-up in journal subscription inflation, and only a small minority of publishers have yet committed to adjusting their subscription prices as they receive increasing levels of income from OA options."
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