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Editorial: Open Access on the move
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The open access movement has fully reached the United States, with the White House announcing that by 31 Dec. 2025, scientific publications and the supporting data resulting from federally funded research should immediately be made publicly accessible upon publication (The White House, 2022, August 25)
As Editors, we have heard many times that authors are hesitant to publish in an open access journal because of the article processing charge (APC), given that authors have the alternative to publish for free in subscription-based, nonopen-access journals
Coalition S, as well as the new U.S policy, while requiring immediate open or public access, will help authors cover the APC by providing additional funding for the added publication costs and by providing incentives to research and funding agencies to make transformational deals with publishers to waive the APC for authors. Such transformational deals between universities/research agencies and publishers are already common in Europe and will allow researchers to publish their research in open access journals without having to pay the APC themselves
Summary
The open access movement has fully reached the United States, with the White House announcing that by 31 Dec. 2025, scientific publications and the supporting data resulting from federally funded research should immediately be made publicly accessible upon publication (The White House, 2022, August 25). Vadose Zone Journal has embraced open access since 2018 and publishes articles under the Gold Open Access model, meaning that the final published version of an article is freely available online for anyone, anywhere to download and read. Coalition S, as well as the new U.S policy, while requiring immediate open or public access, will help authors cover the APC by providing additional funding for the added publication costs and by providing incentives to research and funding agencies to make transformational deals with publishers to waive the APC for authors.
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