Hi Bernhard,
Thanks for your really useful feedback.
Our intention was to explore researchers’ views on some practical options for achieving wider open access. Subscription and hybrid journals, which currently rely on subscriptions to support publication of non-OA articles, may well need to charge a researcher’s funder or institution (or the author themselves) an APC if they became fully open access, in order to remain sustainable in the long term. That’s the particular scenario we were exploring with this question, which is why we went with that wording.
Kind regards,
Rachel
Download the full researcher survey report at: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Taylor-and-Francis-researcher-survey-2019.pdf
From: "Mittermaier, Bernhard" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:00:38 +0000
Hi Rachel, Don't you think the question was asked in a biased way?
T&F asked:
"would you submit your work to a fully open access journal which charged for publication and published no subscription content?"
What do you think about:
"would you submit your work to a journal which publishes all articles open access free for everybody to read and does not charge the libraries for subcription fees?"
By using a non-neutral way of explaining Gold OA in the question you might have influenced the answers.
Best regards,
Bernhard
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