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OA journals have been referred to by Guédon as the ‘gold' road to open access. Although electronic publications have essentially no costs for dissemination, OA scientific journals have operational and administration costs (e.g. peer review, manuscript preparation). There is a variety of models for scholarly publishing and financing.

According to Solomon some typical business models are:

  • Partial open access where full-text is open to subscribers and the other users have access to the metadata of articles.
  • Delayed open access where open access to articles is granted after a short period upon first publication.
  • Dual access where some forms of the publication such as printed or PDF versions are restricted to subscribers but other less desirable or less expensive forms of access such as HTML are freely available.
  • ‘Author-pays' model where authors, or in most cases their sponsors, cover the publication costs.
  • Hybrid models where there is a combination of open and restricted access.
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