Dive Summary:
- The University of California Senate approved open access standards for research, scoring a win for people who want academic research published without paywalls.
- Ordinarily, subscription costs can run up to $40,000 for a single journal.
- Nature reports that it can cost $5,000 to publish in one traditional biology journal, but only $1,350 for the most popular open-access journal.
From the article:
... There are issues with open access; it costs money to curate high-quality peer-review and market the research. Many academic papers take years to write, and its a risky proposition to leave it in the hands of an experimental publisher. ...