Oxford Open Pricing
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Optional Author Publication ChargesSubscriber Test
Authors from Developing Countries
Oxford Open - 2009 online-only price adjustments
OPTIONAL AUTHOR PUBLICATION CHARGES
For each of the journals listed, authors will have the option to pay for Open Access to their paper. The charge will depend on whether the Corresponding author is based in an institution with an online subscription to the journal. Special charges will apply to authors in developing countries, and individual journals may offer variable charges depending on the paper type. It is recommended that authors refer to the specific author instructions for participating journals for details of charges.
For an author based at a subscribing institution:
Regular charge - £900 / $1800 / €1350
List B developing country charge** - £450 / $900 / €675
List A developing country charge** - £0 / $0 / €0
For an author based at an institution that does not subscribe:
Regular charge - £1500 / $3000 / €2250
List B developing country charge** - £750 / $1500 / €1125
List A developing country charge** - £0 /$0 / €0
**Visit our Developing Countries pages for a list of qualifying countries
We have chosen to set the same optional charges for each participating journal. In reality the actual per article cost associated with publishing in each journal varies, depending on such factors as frequency of issues, number and length of papers published, submission numbers and rejection rates. The reduced-rate charge for authors based at subscribing institutions is significantly less than the full cost associated with publishing a paper, and is subsidized by the continued sale of subscriptions. In the current funding climate, where many authors may not be able to cover the full costs of publication, a model that utilises a mixture of funding sources (publication charges, subscriptions, advertising, etc.) is more realistic.
The above optional Open Access charges are in addition to any normal (excess) page charges and colour charges that might apply.
Oxford Journals asks authors to state the source of funding used to pay the Open Access publication charge, after having a manuscript accepted. This provides transparency for readers, funding bodies, and the publisher. If appropriate the information will be added to the Acknowledgement section of the article. It is not compulsory to provide this information, but we encourage all authors to do so.
SUBSCRIBER TEST
Authors can check whether their institution has an active online subscription to the Oxford Open journal of their choice by clicking the following link using an institutional computer - Oxford Open test page - and selecting the Subscriber Test for the appropriate journal.
AUTHORS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
As part of the Oxford Open initiative, authors from developing countries are offered special rates and waivers. In addition, under Oxford Journals' existing Developing Countries Initiative, those based in over 40 'List A' developing countries can apply for free online access to the Oxford Journals Collection. Those based in over 30 further 'List B' countries can apply for deeply discounted access to the collection.
OXFORD OPEN - 2009 ONLINE-ONLY PRICE ADJUSTMENTS
In keeping with our pricing policy, for 2009 we have again made adjustments to online-only subscription prices for journals that offer the optional Oxford Open model. These changes reflect the amount of open access versus non-open access content published within each journal during 2007, and have resulted in some Oxford Open journals experiencing a price reduction to the online-only subscription compared to 2008.
Our standard policy is to price the online-only (and print-only) subscriptions to our journals at 95% of the combined (print and online) price. However, in the case of Oxford Open journals, we apply a further discount to the online-only price based on the amount of open access content published in the previous complete subscription year. So for example, the 2009 online-only price is based on the amount of open access content published in any given journal in 2007. (Journal prices for a subsequent year are set at least six months ahead of each new calendar year).
In 2007, open access papers constituted 6.8% of all papers published in Oxford Open journals. Fourteen Oxford Open journals saw 0% take-up – so for these journals, no adjustment has been made to the online-only price. Forty-seven journals saw differing levels of uptake, with high uptake journals like Bioinformatics (23%) and Human Molecular Genetics (16%) once again seeing the greatest price adjustment. In the case of the Journal of Financial Econometrics and Journal of Economic Geography, this year we have decided not to apply the open access adjustment. This is because the uptake on these two journals is likely to be much lower next year, which could cause a dramatic price increase. In these two instances the effect of open access pricing adjustments is inflated due to their relatively low numbers of pages compared with other journals.
Overall, the average online-only price increase from 2008 to 2009 across all Oxford Journals titles is 6.7%, whereas the average price increase for Oxford Open titles (with open access uptake in 2006) is 4.4%. Six Oxford Open titles saw an absolute reduction in price from 2008 to 2009.
However, pricing is dependent on many factors – including variations in page extent, issue frequency, and exchange rate adjustments, as well as open access uptake – so in some cases open access adjustments will not always result in an actual price decrease from one year to the next. They may in fact have the effect of simply limiting the price increase to a lesser amount, as the discount applies to what the standard 2009 online-only price would have been, not to the 2008 online-only price.