profits.  Two forms of open access regulation can mitigate these problems: (i) direct price regulation of the form whereby a … inferior substitute to the publishing paper.  The former policy is likely to result in authors paying to publish, which may … lead to a reduction in the quantity of published papers and may make authors less willing to publish in selective journals …

profits. Two forms of open access regulation can mitigate these problems: (i) authors are required to publish in a journal … less willing to publish in selective journals. The latter policy makes freely available only an inferior version of the … published article, but may be consistent with authors publishing for free. …

access is a feature of high-quality journals. Besides, we find that the removal of copyright (and thus forced open access …

and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of … publications in Wiley and Springer Nature journals at the cost of other journals. From that two related competition concerns emerge …-DEAL journals published by smaller publishers or to fund open access publications in these journals. Secondly, eligible authors may …

, open access reduces cites to some articles, in particular thosepublished in lower-tier journals. We propose a model in …

The rising star of scholarly publishing is Open Access. Even some traditional journals now offer this option on author … payment, and many full freely accessible journals are now available to scholars, providing relief to research institutions … journals by the community remains a major obstacle to overcome if they are to become a viable alternative for scholarly …

The rising star of scholarly publishing is Open Access. Even some traditional journals now offer this option on author … payment, and many full freely accessible journals are now available to scholars, providing relief to research institutions … journals by the community remains a major obstacle to overcome if they are to become a viable alternative for scholarly …

authors or from institutional support. Using panel data on science journals, we are able to circumvent problems plaguing … concentrated among top-ranked journals. In fact, open access causes a statistically significant reduction in cites to the bottom …-ranked journals in our sample, leading us to conjecture that open access may intensify competition among articles for readers …