Flexible (subsidiaries) models for funding open access in journal publishing

Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentPublic Library of Science(PLoS)

http://www.plos.org/ PLOS ONE aims to publishand make freely availableacademic papers to aglobal audience. PLOSONE articles arecompletely free to access,and indexed by Google,PubMed, Scopus, Web ofScience and many more -making them easy to find,read and cite. Every articlepublished by PLOS ONE isthoroughly assessed by anAcademic Editor and anaverage of 2 reviewersdrawn from an expertglobal network. Inaddition, PLOS ONEupholds the highestinternational standards forresearch ethics,publication ethics, andscientific reporting.

PLOS applies the CreativeCommons Attribution (CCBY) license to all works wepublish (read the human-readable summary or thefull license legal code).Under the CC BY license,authors retain ownershipof the copyright for theirarticle, but authors allowanyone to download,reuse, reprint, modify,distribute, and/or copyarticles in PLOS journals,so long as the originalauthors and source arecited. No permission isrequired from the authorsor the publishers.

To provide Open Access,PLOS uses a businessmodel to offsetexpenses—including thoseof peer reviewmanagement, journalproduction and onlinehosting and archiving—bycharging a publication feeto the authors, institutionsor funders for each articlepublished. Publication feesvary by journal and arepayable for articles uponacceptance. PLOS believesthat lack of funds shouldnot be a barrier to OpenAccess publication. Sinceits inception, PLOS hasprovided individual feesupport and institutionalfee support programs. Thecurrent offering includes:PLOS Global ParticipationInitiative (Low- andMiddle-Income CountryAssistance). Authors'research which is fundedprimarily (50% or more ofthe work contained withinthe article) by aninstitution or organizationfrom eligible low- andmiddle-income countrieswill receive partial (group2 countries) or full (group1 countries) fee funding

Public Library of Science(PLoS) is often held up asan example of the suc-cess of this model. It canafford to be a quick turnaround, high impactpublication. It is stronglysubsidized by US FederalGovernment and othergrants not available tosmall niche scientificpublishers. They don'treally give anything awaythat hasn’t been paid forby some other means.source:http://www.wildlifedisease.org/wda/Portals/0/January2012Newsletter.pdf

Flexible (subsidiaries) models for funding open access journal publishing

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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentpaid by the PLOS GlobalParticipation Initiative(GPI). Group 2 PLOS GPIcountry authors who needto request additionalsupport should apply forPLOS Publication FeeAssistance instead of thePLOS GPI.PLOS Publication FeeAssistance (PFA) isintended for authors whodemonstrate financialneed. Information aboutan applicant's applicationstatus for fee assistancewill not be disclosed tojournal editors orreviewers. PLOSpublication decisions willcontinue to be basedsolely on editorial criteria.PLOS Institutional FeeSupport Program: PLOScurrently offers aninstitutional program tosupport Open Accessscientific publishing.Participating institutionshave arrangements withPLOS to administerpayment for fullpublication fees for theirinstitutions' authors. To beeligible, authors must be acorresponding authoraffiliated with the


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentinstitution or agency in theInstitutional AccountProgram (fully paid orrestricted). (Special noteto UK authors — certaininstitutions will restrictpayment to cover forWellcome Trust and RCUKresearch grant recipientsonly.) Authors who needto request additionalsupport should apply forPLOS PFA.Additional External Funds:Authors may also beeligible for direct fundingfrom their institution orfunder, which may bedifferent from the PLOSInstitutional program. Seeadditional Open Accessfunds for examples.Payment is due whenPLOS accepts the articlefor publication (PLOS ONE$1,350 USD)http://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentUbiquity Press http://www.ubiquitypress.

com/site/about/Ubiquity Press is an openaccess publisher of peer-reviewed, academicjournals. Their flexiblepublishing model makesjournals and booksaffordable, and enablesresearchers around theworld to find and accessthe information theyneed, without barriers.

All Ubiquity Press contentis released under openlicenses from CreativeCommons. They believethat only CC BY meets therequirements for trueopen access for books andjournals, and stronglyprefer CC0 for openresearch data. Theysupport the BudapestOpen Access Initiative, aswell as the PantonPrinciples, which statethat "for science toeffectively function, andfor society to reap the fullbenefits from scientificendeavours, it is crucialthat science data be madeopen."

All content published byUbiquity Press is madefreely available online. Thecosts of publication -including peer review,production, and archiving -are paid for by articleprocessing charges (APCs).In general it is expectedthat the cost ofpublication to be coveredby an author’s institutionor funder, but whereappropriate they waive orreduce APCs to ensurecost is not a barrier topublication.Ubiquity Press works withOpen Access Key (OAK) toadminister the APC. Onpublication of the article,OAK emails the author torequest payment; if theauthor is from aninstitution with which OAKalready has a relationship,then OAK will contact theinstitution fund managerin the first instance, andthe author may not beinvolved in the paymentprocess. [The Open AccessKey is a new financialplatform to manage,consolidate and processpublication fees incurredin Open Access Publishing.

Ubiquity Press(@ubiquitypress), a smallnew London-based digitalpublisher of peerreviewed, open-accessacademic journals. Unlikemany traditionalpublishers, Ubiquity onlytakes payment for theservice of publication,rather than taking overthe rights to research andthen selling access to it.We publish 100% openaccess and charge low,optional APCs (articleprocessing charges) thatare therefore noimpediment. We also formpartnerships to supportsmaller presses, especiallythose in developingcountries, to ensure thatthere are avenues topublishing for researchersthere. We do have articleprocessing charges (APCs),but we don’t expectauthors to have to paythese in mostcircumstances, as theseshould be picked up bytheir funders orinstitutions. This isessentially the same forboth books and journals.The developing country


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentIt has been designed toreduce time, effort andexpenditure and toconnect individual authorsto their universities,researcher funders andlearned societies. Theplatform aims to engage,advice and guidance fromall participants in OAPublishing.Source:openaccesskey.com]

and student journals wepublish have noAPCshttp://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ubiquity/43312


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentPeerJ https://peerj.com PeerJ considers

submissions of ResearchArticles in the Biologicaland Medical Sciences.PeerJ provides academicswith two Open Accesspublication venues: PeerJ(a peer-reviewedacademic journal) andPeerJ PrePrints (a 'pre-print server').

PeerJ publish all contentunder the prevailing CC-BYlicence (currently 4.0).This is the same licenseused by other major OpenAccess publishers (such asPLoS or BioMedCentral,for example). Anyone whore-uses the publishedcontent must attribute theauthor(s) and the originalsource, but otherwise theyare free to re-use it asthey see fit. This licensemeets all definitions of‘true’ Open Access, andcomplies with anyinstitutional or funder OAmandates that may exist.

In PeerJ authors can payfor themselves, a few, orall of the co-authors in asingle payment (once theyhave submitted theirmanuscript). Planspurchased through thisform can only be appliedto authors with anaccepted manuscript if thepurchase occurred beforethat paper was accepted.Authors who choose topay for a publishing planat submission get thecheapest rates, authorscan choose to submit for'free' and pay only onceaccepted - in that instancetheir publication rates areslightly higher. The PeerJbase model is for authorsto get a publishing plan onor before submission.PeerJ also allow people tosubmit for free. However,in that instance they needto pay after finalacceptance and beforefinal publication. If anauthor pay for a publishingplan at time of submissionthen you get the cheapestrates available (forexample, $99 for the Basicplan), but if the authorchoose to submit for free

It's easy to forget thattechnological revolutionsalso demand businessmodel revolutions. I wasreally struck by PeerJ'sbusiness model, whichseems to have a deepinsight into the realmotivations ofresearchers, and couldprovide a truly newapproach to sciencepublishing. One exampleof an altered model is the“author membership”model, perhaps mostprominently exemplifiedby the new journal PeerJ.Under the “authormembership” model, theauthor pays a fee to be amember of the journal,and that fee gives themember publishingprivileges. In the case ofPeerJ, there are levels ofmembership that allow forone, two, or unlimitedpublications per year,depending on the level ofmembership that is paid.Under this model, the feefor membership is lowerthan many APCs, and,once paid, there is nofurther monetary cost topublish. The only further


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentand pay only uponacceptance then s/he willpay an additionalpremium of $40. If thepaper gets rejected theauthor can get a refund of80% of whatever was paid.(Basic at $99; Enhanced at$199; Unlimited at $299).PeerJ offer a no questionsasked fee waiver, onrequest, to anyone fromcountries that areclassified by the WorldBank as Low-incomeeconomies. The waiversimply applies to thepublication in question,and is not a waiver for afull publishing plan. PeerJonly allow one waiver perperson per year. Manyestimates put the averagecost of an article in asubscription-based journalat $5,333 ($US). And themost popular Open Accessjournals still charge morethan $1,300 per article.One way or another thesecosts come out of moneythat could be going toresearch.

obligation on the author isto commit to commentingon or peer reviewing thesubmissions of otherauthors.[http://crln.acrl.org/content/75/5/240]


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentOpen Library of Humanitie https://www.openlibhums A peer-reviewed open

access, internationallysupported, academic ledand high quality mega-journal, multi-journal,overlay-journal & booksplatform for thehumanities.It provides ahuge online repository ofpeer-reviewed articlesthat shows off the best inresearch from around theworld in a way that’s fullyand publicly accessible.The Open Library ofHumanities aims toprovide a platform forOpen Access publishingthat is: Reputable andrespected throughrigorous peer review;Sustainable; Digitallypreserved and safelyarchived in perpetuity;Non-profit; Open in bothmonetary and permissionterms; Non-discriminatoryto authors (collectivelyfunded through a LibraryPartnership Subsidiesmodel); Technicallyinnovative in response tothe needs of scholars andlibrarians.

Everything published inthe OLH and its journals isfree for the reader toaccess. All material is to belicensed under a CreativeCommons license of theauthor's choosing.

OLH is based on a subsidymodel that is pilotingcostings, labour needs,infrastructurerequirements andpotential revenuestreams. It is non-profitand open in bothmonetary and permissionterms. It gives free accessunder a creative commonslicence and sets out toprovide a resource forscholars and librarians todigitally preserve andarchive work permanentlyand for everyone. Itlaunched a campaignasking scholars to Pledgeto Publish a paper withOLH within its first year.Scholars who so pledgeand don’t haveinstitutional support willhave any fees, yet to bedetermined, waived. TheOLH model ofsustainability takes its cuefrom the previouslysuccessful efforts of thePublic Library of Science (anon-profit organizationdedicated to publishingexcellent, thoroughly peerreviewed scientificresearch under OpenAccess conditions at a

A forthcoming peer-reviewed open access,internationally supported,academic led and highquality mega-journal,multi-journal, overlay-journal & books platformfor the humanities.


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentfinancially fair rate).

Article Processing Charge-funded Open Accessmega-journal (nodisciplinary bounds, nosubject categorisation butpeer review is stillperformed by disciplinaryspecialists), non-profitentity that works only tosustain itself. In the caseof an author being unableto pay, PLOS waive theircharges.

As known, the majority ofresearch in the humanitiesremains unfunded exceptthrough institutional time.For this reason, ArticleProcessing Charges arenot a palatable option forthese disciplines. OLHpropose instead a modelof Library PartnershipSubsidies to collectivelyfund the venue and itsarray of overlayjournals.The current levelof Article ProcessingCharges makes gold OApublishing unaffordablefor the majority ofunfunded humanitiesscholars. The OLH aimsinstead to implement a


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentcollaborative, orcollective, funding modelfor gold open access in thehumanities. When manylibraries band together, itbecomes possible tosupport large-scale openaccess infrastructures at afar cheaper rate whencompared with closedaccess subscriptionmechanisms and directarticle processing charges.

OLH proposed a LibraryPartnership Subsidy (LPS).The economies of scalethat are achieved can bestaggering. To fund anoperation publishing 250articles and 12 books inpartnership withreputable presses peryear, we need a bandedaverage of just $700 from500 libraries. If 1000libraries participated, thiscost is lowered to $350.On the $700 rate that's acost to each library of$2.80 per article.This becomes cheaperwith every library thatjoins. In this way there willbe no Article ProcessingCharges for authors. Thisis the way to end the


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentserials crisis, not bytransitioning to a straightsupply-side rate at thecost levied by manycommercial publishers.

The official launch isexpected for early 2015.[https://www.openlibhums.org/wp-content/uploads/LPS.pdf]


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Co-Action Publishinghttp://www.co-action.net Co-Action Publishing is an iCo-Action Publishing is an

Open Access scholarlypublisher. All contentpublished by Co-ActionPublishing is made freelyaccessible immediatelyupon publication, withoutrestriction, under licensesthat provide for liberal re-use. Authors contributingto Co-Action Publishingtitles agree to publishtheir articles either underthe Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0Unported license (CCNC),or the Creative CommonsAttribution license (CCBY).According to both, authorsagree to allow thirdparties to share their work(copy, distribute, transmit)and to adapt it, under thecondition that the authorsare given credit, and thatin the event of reuse ordistribution, the terms ofthis license are madeclear. In the case of theCCNC, re-use excludescommercial use in thecase of reprints orpermission to reproducean article in a publicationintended for commercialsales. Authors retain

Co-Action Publishingoffers publishing servicesfor supplements as well asfor other types ofmonographs (e.g.festschrift, dissertations,conference or meetingproceedings, etc.).Following their OpenAccess policy, the author'spublication will bepublished in an OpenAccess online edition forthe widest possibledissemination under thesame license as thejournal it is published in. Apaper edition of theauthor's publication canalso be produced at a lowprice, to be delivered to aspecified location or eventaccordingly. The pprojectfunded by the SwedishRoyal Library to develop abest practices guide toopen access journalpublishing.

For commercially-sponsored publications,both published andelectronic advertisingspaces are available. Co-Action Publishingcooperate with sponsorsto meet their particular


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentcopyright of their work,with first publicationrights granted to Co-Action Publishing. In thecase of the CCNC license,authors are required totransfer copyrightsassociated withcommercial use to thePublisher. Co-ActionPublishing stronglyencourages authors topost the final version oftheir articles in all relevantrepositories, to relevantwebsites and to share withcolleagues.

promotion requests.Books and some journalarticles in the Co-ActionPublishing portfolio arepublished under theCreative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0Unported license.Commercial rights topublished work areexercised by Co-ActionPublishing.

In addition to sellingreprints of single articlesCo-Action Publishing ishappy to create a tailor-made package of reprintsif the author is interested,combining articles fromseveral journals (and/orchapters from books)within a certain area orspeciality. Co-ActionPublishing recognizeselectronic displayadvertising revenue as alegitimate source offinancial support forpublications. Co-ActionPublishing abide by thefollowing guidelines whenapproving advertising:No advertiser mayinfluence or attempt toinfluence editorial


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentdecisions.Advertisements shallcontain no references tospecific pharmaceuticalproducts or medicaldevices but may refer tocompany philosophy orcommunity message.Advertisements shall beplaced on generalinformation pages for ajournal, and not inconjunction withindividual publishedarticles.Advertising opportunitiesand their administrationare handled solely by Co-Action Publishing.All advertisers agree toabide by all applicablelaws and relevant ethicalstandards.Co-Action Publishingreserves the right torefuse advertising fromany business ororganization.


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentAfrican Journals OnLine (A http://www.ajol.info/ African Journals OnLine

(AJOL) is an online serviceto provide access toAfrican-publishedresearch, and increaseworldwide knowledge ofindigenous scholarship.AJOL is a Non ProfitOrganisation based inSouth Africa. AJOL is theworld's largest onlinecollection of African-published, peer-reviewedscholarly journals. AJOL'sVision is for Africanlearning to be translatedinto African development.AJOL's Mission: to increaseonline visibility, access anduse of African-publishedresearch output in supportof quality African researchand higher education.AJOL provides free hostingfor over 400 peer-reviewed journals from 30African countries, usingthe internet and opensource software. AJOL'spartner journals cover thefull range of academicdisciplines withparticularly strongsections on health andagriculture.

Open Access (OA), definedmost simply, means freefull text online. There areover 130 Open Accessjournals hosted on theAJOL websit. This (OA)symbol is found next to allthe ‘Open Access’ (OA)titles indexed on AJOL.Open Access means thearticles do not have acharge on them and aretherefore free for anyoneto download. The full-texts of these articles areavailable on either theAJOL website or thejournal’s own website.Please note that openaccess does not mean ithas no copyright.

AJOL allows for free accessto thousands of articleabstracts, and offers aprogressively chargedarticle download servicefor researchers andlibrarians to access fulltext of individual articles.Libraries may open a pre-paid article downloadaccount with AJOL. Thismakes it easier forstudents and staff to getfull text from the AJOLsubscription-basedjournals - open accessjournals have full textonline for free. Access toindividual articles via AJOLpre-paid accounts isthrough a password or byour softwareautomatically picking up IPrange, at the choice of theinstitution. All rates arediscounted and depend onthe number of articlesrequested. Low IncomeCountry EducationalInstitution Libraries: Quotaof a maximum of 12 freearticles per month. If thatis routinely reached, thelibrary is encouraged topurchase a pre-paidbundle at Lower MiddleIncome Country rates to


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentaugment the quota. LowerMiddle Income Country$1,875 ($7.50 per article)and a High IncomeCountry: $6,000 for 250articles ($24.00 perarticle*). There is no timerestriction. Over half theincome from articledownloads is returned tothe originating journals,and the remainder is usedas partial cost-recovery byAJOL to allow the serviceto continue.


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentSCOAP3 consortium http://scoap3.org/ The SCOAP3 aims to reach

consensus among allstakeholders on a newmodel for publishing inhigh-energy physics, andestablish marketequilibrium. Theinstitution-specific returnon investment in SCOAP3is expected to be thecontainment of costsrequired to access HEPliterature, along with:A transparent view of thecosts of peer-review,editing, and articledissemination.An opportunity to containthe costs of HEPpublishing.A more completeelectronic informationenvironment to supportthe needs of HEP researchand beyond.A closer relationship withthe worldwide researchcommunity to effectpositive change inscholarly publishing.A demonstration of howinternational cooperationcan support theadvancement ofsustainable Open Accessto research.Concrete data on the

Articles are Open Access,the copyright stays withthe authors, permissiveCC-BY license allow text-and data-miningapplications. Thisautomatically addressesfunding-agencies oruniversities Open Accessmandates. At no cost forauthors. Articles are OpenAccess, the copyright stayswith the authors,permissive CC-BY licenseallow text- and data-mining applications.

SCOAP3 is a one-of-its-kind partnership ofthousands of libraries andkey funding agencies andresearch centers in threedozen countries. Workingwith leading publishers,SCOAP3 has converted keyjournals in the field ofHigh-Energy Physics toOpen Access at no cost forauthors. SCOAP3 iscentrally paying publishersfor the costs involved inproviding Open Access,publishers in turn reducesubscription fees to alltheir customers, who cancontribute to SCOAP3.Each country participate ina way commensurate toits scientific output in thisfield. SCOAP3, theSponsoring Consortium forOpen Access in ParticlePhysics Publishing,proposes an innovativeeconomic model toachieve Open Access topeer-reviewed literaturein high-energy physics(HEP). The model seeks to,(using current fundinglevels as a starting point),redirect subscriptionexpenditures to ensureopen access and work to

The most successful andwell-known of this modelis the SCOAP3 consortiumin which most of the majorjournals in a specific field(in this case, high-energyphysics) participate in OApublishing. Under theterms of the SCOAP3consortium agreement,the participating journalsagreed to begin publishingall articles OA, and, inturn, all of thesubscription costs areprorated for consortialmembers. The authorsbear no cost of thefunding.


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentviability of a unique OpenAccess publishing modelthat can inform theevolution of futurepotential models.The opportunity toautomatically populatedigital repositories withOpen Access peer-reviewed material, orcreate local archives of allSCOAP3 material.SCOAP3creates a viablealternative to the statusquo in scholarly publishingfor one entire discipline.

contain costs - and indoing so, achieve morevalue than is possiblewithin a subscription-based system.The SCOAP3 model is theproduct of extensiveconsultation with allstakeholders in scholarlycommunication -- authors,funding agencies, librariesand publishers --spearheaded by thescientists and librarians atCERN, the center of thehigh-energy physicscommunity in Geneva,which has been a leadingexample of the unifyingpower of internationalcollaboration in science.CERN aims to transferHEP’s successful model forconsensus-building andcooperation to thescholarly communicationarena. Open Access is apriority for the HEPcommunity. SCOAP3proposes to create aninternational consortiumof libraries and fundingagencies that will centrallycontract with publishersfor the services ofadministering peer-review, editing, and Open-


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentAccess articledissemination. An opentender or “bidding”process will invitepublishers of HEP journals,not-for-profit andcommercial alike, tocompete to provide theseservices. This will replacethe current disaggregatedprocess, in which librariesnegotiate the cost ofaccess separately –putting libraries back atthe center of scholarlycommunication.The tendering process isan established practice inthe HEP community, as itis in other large-scalepublicly funded industrialprocurements. It is guidedby the principles ofcompetition and will workto link price with qualityand volume. Thesevariables are not explicitly(or transparently) linked intoday’s scholarlycommunication market.The SCOAP3 initiativerelies on Expressions ofInterest from theworldwide librarycommunity to advance tothe next step. Once acritical mass of interest


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentfrom the internationalcommunity is established,a governing board will beformed to represent theinterests of allparticipants. CERN willprovide the legal andpurchasing infrastructurerequired to administer thetendering process. Thegoverning board will inviteand assess bids from thepublishers and adjudicatecontracts, ensuring thatthe requirements andinterests of memberlibraries are met. Partnerlibraries and consortia willonly formalize theircommitment to theconsortium through aMemorandum ofUnderstanding once bidshave been reviewed andaccepted by the governingboard.


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommenteLife http://elifesciences.org eLife Sciences is a unique,

non-profit collaborationbetween the funders andpractitioners of researchto improve the wayimportant results arepresented and shared. Theopen-access eLife journalis the first step in thisinitiative to make sciencepublishing moreeffectively benefit scienceand scientists.

License to Use JournalArticles and RelatedContent: Unless otherwiseindicated, the articles andjournal content publishedby eLife on the eLife Sitesare licensed under aCreative CommonsAttribution license (alsoknown as a CC-BY license).This means that you arefree to use, reproduce anddistribute the articles andrelated content (unlessotherwise noted), forcommercial andnoncommercial purposes,subject to citation of theoriginal source inaccordance with the CC-BYlicense.

eLife is a peer-reviewedopen access scientificjournal for the biomedicaland life sciences. It wassponsored by the HowardHughes Medical Institute,Max Planck Society, andWellcome Trust followinga workshop held in 2010at the Janelia FarmResearch Campus. It wasestablished at the end of2012 and made its initialarticles available byposting them on PubMedCentral. The founders –the Howard HughesMedical Institute, the MaxPlanck Society, and theWellcome Trust –continue their generoussupport of eLife as aninitiative to lead change inthe way scientific resultsare selected, presented,and shared.

Charging authors APCs isnot the only businessmodel employed by OApublishers. In recent years,some new models haveemerged for generatingincome to cover the costsof producing a journal.The journal eLife is anexample of fundingagencies moving beyondsupport of existingjournals and setting uptheir own OA publication.eLife publication funds arecurrently covered by thefunding agencies, thejournal may implementAPCs as part of a broadersustainability plan in thefuture.


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Project Name URL Goal License Model CommentF1000Research http://f1000.com/ F1000Research is an open

access scientific journalcovering the life sciences.An innovative openscience journal offeringrapid publication andopen peer review.F1000Research is acompletely original OpenScience journal for lifescientists. It offers rapidopen access publication,where articles arepublished first and peerreviewed after publicationby invited referees. Thepeer reviewer names andcomments are visible onthe site as well as full datadeposition and sharing.F1000Research accepts allscientifically soundarticles, ranging fromsingle findings, casereports, protocols,replications, and null ornegative results to moretraditional researcharticles and reviews. Aspart of its open sciencemodel, the data behindeach article are alsopublished and aredownloadable.F1000Research publishesmultiple article typesincluding traditional

The Licenses that Apply toArticles, Data and RefereeReports: F1000Researcharticles are usuallypublished under a CC BYlicense, which permitsunrestricted use,distribution, andreproduction in anymedium, provided theoriginal work is properlycited, and leaves thecopyright of the articlewith the current copyrightholder (usually the authoror his/her institution).Additional waivers areused for somegovernmental employees,as appropriate. As thespecific version of the CCBY license applied toarticles may change due toperiodic updates, thecopyright information foreach article is shownbelow the abstract. Dataassociated withF1000Research articles aremade available, wherepossible, under the termsof a Creative CommonsPublic Domain Dedication(CC0 license). Thisfacilitates and encouragesdata re-use and helpsprevent the problems of

The online publicationF1000 Research requiressubmitters to pay an APCfor publication, but forthose who are membersof F1000 or areparticipating peerreferees, a heavilydiscounted APC is chargedupon publication. Theincentive to cash-strappedauthors, then, is toparticipate in a communityhosted by a publishingentity in exchange for areduced charge for OApublication. Below are theArticle Processing Charges(APCs) for F1000Research.Research Articles; MethodArticles; Study Protocols;Reviews; SystematicReviews (US $1000)Clinical Practice Articles;Software Tools;Observation Articles;Opinion Articles; ResearchNotes US ($500) DataNotes, Case Reports;Correspondence (US $250)

The incentive to cash-strapped authors, then, isto participate in acommunity hosted by apublishing entity inexchange for a reducedcharge for OA publication.The journal has beencriticized for unclear peer-review standards inrelation to its inclusion inPubMed, but has sinceclarified how articles areindexed in the PubMedand PubMed Centraldatabases.


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Project Name URL Goal License Model Commentresearch articles, singlefindings, case reports,protocols, replications,and null or negativeresults.

attribution stacking whencombining multipledatasets each authored bymultiple authors that usemultiple different licences.

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