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07: Private researchers may find ‘pay to publish’ prohibitive

Journals going ‘fully Gold’ versus hybrid ‘Green and Gold’ might mean that private researchers including retired researchers and independent scholars could find ‘pay to publish’ prohibitively expensive.

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07: Private researchers may find ‘pay to publish’ prohibitive
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01: Research funding may be diverted towards publication costs
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02: Public funds for payments of APCs are not infinite
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03: Bureaucratic gatekeepers to the research publication process
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04: Moral objections to re-use of research outputs under CC-BY
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05: Helps to preserve an outdated publication process
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06: May result in lower funding for university libraries
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08: Potential for double-dipping’ in relation to hybrid journals
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