One of the most significant differences between traditional journal publishing and open access publishing is that it turns the way that content is funded on its head. Instead of putting content behind the paywall of a subscription, open access journals make the research they publish available to anyone. Open access publishing itself comes in two flavours. ‘Green’ open access is self-archiving and works by researchers submitting their content to an open access repository, which is free to the author. The other model is ‘gold’ open access, which requires a payment – usually called an Article Processing Fee (APC) – to be made before an article can be published. Gold open access is funded either by subsidy or support from an academic institution (e.g. a university or government body) or authors paying what are called for their contributions to be published.
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