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The California Geographer And The Oa Movement: Using The Green Oa Institutional Repository As A Publishing Platform, Michael Biondo, Andrew Weiss
The California Geographer And The Oa Movement: Using The Green Oa Institutional Repository As A Publishing Platform, Michael Biondo, Andrew Weiss
Michael Biondo
Publishing in open access has been largely dominated by Gold OA
journals. Publication in these journals, which in some cases have
developed as the leading scholarly journals in their respective
disciplines, provides immediate dissemination of information, a greater
likelihood of citations for authors, and costs less than traditional publishing
venues (Wagner, 2010). Lesk (2012) estimates that publisher Elsevier spends
about $10,000 per article published, while the Public Library of Science
(PLoS), a prominent Gold OA journal, spends only about $1,500 per article.
PLoS’ fee-based approach is a vital part of the open access movement even
as it erects economic obstacles …