It would be pretty interesting if Louis Vuitton items were designed, manufactured, quality controlled, etc entirely by customers who then hand them over to Louis Vuitton to have a logo stamped and have put in a box and sold without any of the proceeds returning to suppliers.
Having said that Shifting the prices to authors with free access for all is generally seen as pretty fair.
Open access publishing has always been expensive and NeuroImage is on the cheaper end and on par with PLOS.
Anticipated publication fees get incorporated into grant budgets and in the grand scheme of a grant budget it's a nothingburger.
Some journals are associated with societies (peer reviewed by members and made available to society members for a very discounted rate or free but non-members pay for access). Many of those also are ad-supported, though.
> It would be pretty interesting if Louis Vuitton items were designed, manufactured, quality controlled, etc entirely by customers who then hand them over to Louis Vuitton to have a logo stamped and have put in a box and sold without any of the proceeds returning to suppliers.
And that Louis Vuitton charged the customers for the right to have their work sold.
Having said that Shifting the prices to authors with free access for all is generally seen as pretty fair. Open access publishing has always been expensive and NeuroImage is on the cheaper end and on par with PLOS.
https://plos.org/publish/fees/
Anticipated publication fees get incorporated into grant budgets and in the grand scheme of a grant budget it's a nothingburger.
Some journals are associated with societies (peer reviewed by members and made available to society members for a very discounted rate or free but non-members pay for access). Many of those also are ad-supported, though.