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Negative effects of gold OA fees
Stevan Harnad, Gold OA Fees, Whether for Submission of for Publication, Are Premature, Open Access Archivangelism, October 20, 2008.
Submission fees as a potential means of covering peer review costs have been mooted since at least 1999 and much discussed across the years in the American Scientist Open Access Forum. They are indeed a promising and potentially viable mechanism for covering the costs of peer review. |