A Gold Open Access Experiment: Wiley Interscience
One model of Gold OA is a direct solicitation to a potential author that a one time up front fee will insure open electronic access to their accepted research article. Wiley Interscience, a successful publisher of journals and related biomedical content, created a recent “experimental” program for more than 280 Wiley-Blackwell journals called OnlineOpen. Details that authors must consider are found in an FAQ document. You can see the order form here. Oh, by the way, it is a flat fee of $3,000, and some of your grant funding agencies may pay for it. Also, certain journals participate, and in the merger of the Wiley and Blackwell journal publishing operations, the process of application for OnlineOpen is distinct.
Authors for either a Wiley or Blackwell biomedical journal normally submit an exclusive license form (ELF), which is available from the editorial office. Here are the Blackwell and Wiley Copyright Transfer forms.
Most of the time it is rather difficult to know or figure out how much a library here or elsewhere pays per year to access electronic journals that are not open access. We must provide some type of credit to Wiley Interscience for providing a 2010 journal list price document on the web. Wiley also gets credit for supporting the NIH Public Access Mandate by posting the accepted version in the NIH archive within the 12-month requirement.
Of course, the UKPMC, a UK repository version of the US PubMed Central, requires deposit within six months for a consortium of UK funding organizations.
