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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:25:37 +0000

We know that some - not all that many - institutions have funding for
author publication charges. So lately we have been offering, to
institutions who sign up for our 'Package' of 27 peer-reviewed titles,
the opportunity to have written into the licence the right for members
from that institution to have XX papers published in our journals in a
year, subject to normal acceptance procedures, on an Open Access basis
with no additional APCs. While up to a point I have to go with market
flow and accept the APC model, I must say I don't like it, its
capacity for distorting scholarly communication is self-evident (in
fact I'm puzzled as to why its become so popular again). This option
seems to take money off the table, at the author-editor-publisher
nexus, which I can only think is good news.

Bill Hughes
Multi-Science Publishing
www.multi-science.co.uk