Open access publishing has led to researchers paying thousands of dollars to publish their work, limiting funds for research and leaving scientists with hard choices.
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These high costs, many researchers said, can be barriers for early career scientists and those from institutions with less resources and funding. “The idea of open access is, of course, great; everybody should get access. But if an individual researcher has to pay for it, some will not be able to afford that from their research budget,” said Robert Arlinghaus, a fisheries scientist at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. Arlinghaus is a founding editor for the Journal of Fisheries and is a handling editor for the journal Fish and Fisheries, for which he receives an honorarium.
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