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HelpSome journals and publishers are automatically open access, and some are entirely restricted to subscribers. In the middle, some publishers or journals allow authors to put their own prepub copies onto their websites or into a repository (sometimes referred to as "Green open access"), or they may offer authors the option to sponser open access and freely distribute the final publisher formatted article (sometimes referreed to as "Gold open access"). This is especially important if the authors are obligated to deposit their article into an open access repository such as PubMed Central. These are (as of 10/20/2011) the fees for sponsoring open access with some of the major publications.
This information is bound to need updating frequently (and is really quite confusing in the first place), so check with the publishers website for definitive costs.
| Publisher | Delay for free open access | Paid Option Name | Open Access Fee for immediate open access | Creative Commons License (key) | Eligible Titles / Sample titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Institute of Physics (AIP) | N/A | Author Select | $1500 or $1800, depending on Journal | CC-BY 3.0 | Applied Physics Letters ($1800) J Chem Phys ($1500) |
| American Chemical Society | 12 months | ACS Author Choice | Base=$3000 - $1000 for UC subscription discount and $1000 for ACS membership discount = $1000 | Unknown | JACS |
| American Physical Society | 12 months | Unnamed | $1700/Phys Rev $2700/270 Phys Rev Lett |
CC-BY 3.0 | Physical Review Letters |
| American Psychological Association | 11.5 months | Deposit | $2500-$4000 | Unknown | American Psychologist |
| American Society of Microbiology | 6 months | Optional Open Access | $2000 (members) $3000 (non-members) - Most articles are available in PubMed Central after 6 months without charge. (Review articles take 12 months) | CC-BY-NC-SA | mBIO |
| BioMed Central | All articles open for fee | Open Access Policy | $570 - $2505 (15% reduction for UCR authors due to UCR membership) | CC-BY | BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC Informatics, Genome Biology, Nutrition Journal |
| BMJ | N/A | BMJ BMJ Open BMJ Unlocked |
BMJ/ BMJ Open = 2500 Br pounds. (But only if fully grant paid). BMJ Unlocked = ~$2200-$3145. | CC-BY-NC 2.0 | BMJ Open is an open access journal. BMJ Unlocked is for other BMJ Journals. |
| Cambridge University Press | Cambridge Open Option | $2700 | Unknown | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | |
| Cell Press | Unnamed | $5000 | CC-BY or CC-BY-NC-ND | Cell Reports | |
| Cold Springs Harbor | 6 months | Open Access Option | $2000 | Unknown | Genome Research |
| Company of Biologists | 6 months | Unnamed | $1350 | CC-BY-NC-ND | Development |
| Crop Science Society of America | 18 months | Open Access Option | $800 (but cannot repost, only link back to free version ot publisher) | Crop Science | |
| Ecological Society of America | N/A | Ecosphere only | $1,250 ESA members, $1500 for non-members | yes | Ecosphere |
| Elsevier | 12 months | Sponsored Articles | $3000 | Unknown | |
| European Geosciences Union | Most journals only open | Unnamed | Included in "Service charges." Extremely reasonable. | yes | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
| FASEB | 12 months | Open Access Option | $2500 | FASEB | |
| Genetics Society of America | Open Access | $1650 - $1950 | CC-BY | Genetics | |
| Hindawi Publishing | free - $1500 | yes | J of Marine Biology, Advances in Astronomy, Advances in Condensed Matter Physics | ||
| Institute of Physics (IOP) | Free Green archiving at 12-24 months. 12 for NIH funded articles. | Hybrid Open Access Open Access Journals |
Hybrids: Mostly $2700. Purely open journals have lower fees ~$1000 | no | 7 pure open access journals 27 Hybrid Journals |
| Landes Bioscience | $900 or free for NIH funded papers | ||||
| Mary Ann Liebert | 12 months | Liebert Open | $3200 (subsequent articles $2200) - 2200 with subscriber discount. | Tissue Engineering A,B,C | |
| Natl. Acad. Sciences | 6 months | Open Access | 1300 base, $975 with UC subscriber discount. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | |
| Nature | N/A | Publication fee | $1350 - $5000 | CC-BY-Nc-ND or CC-BY-NC-SA | |
| Optics Society of America | Express or Optional Open Access | Express Journals (purely open access): price varies by no. of pages ($1000-1700), Optional Open access: $1500 (Optics letters, JOSA A, JOSA B) | no | Optics Express | |
| Oxford University Press | N/A | Oxford Open | $3000 | yes | 7 journals are only open, 90 journal are optionally open. |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | All articles open for a fee | Open Access | $1350, $2250,$2900 (10% reduction for UC authors due to UC membership) | CC-BY | PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS One |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | 12 months | RSC Open Science | Varies from 1000-2500 british pounds. 15% discount due to UC subscription. | CC-BY | All RSC Journals |
| SAGE | N/A | Sage Open | $695 ($195 introductory rate may apply) | yes | only Sage Open |
| Springer | 12 months | SpringerOpen Springer Open Choice |
SpringerOpen: $690 - $2070 Springer Open Choice: $3000(15% reduction for UC authors due to UC membership.) | yes | ~100 journal are SpringerOpen, the rest are Open Choice |
| Taylor and Francis | 12 months | iOpenAccess | $3250 | 530 iOpenAccess journals. | |
| Wiley | 12 months | Wiley Open Access | $1850-$2500 in general (with some exceptions), Possible small UC discount. | yes | only Brain and Behavior, Ecology and Evolution, and Microbiology Open |
Sources:
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PaidOA.html - an excellent list, similar to this one, but maybe more complete.
http://libraries.mit.edu/img/blog/nih-pubpolicies.pdf - A similar list from MIT, concentrating on the NIH compliance of the publishers.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/oa_fees.html - A similar list from UCB, which also includes some of the UC discounts.