Hi,

The main tangible advantage of publishing in an open access journal and paying APC is the fact that you can maintain the copyrights on your paper, and you could decide freely , after publication, how to make your paper visible in more ways.

Hi Simon. Your reflection is a struggle that takes years. The construction of knowledge must be free so that it can be autonomous. Large corporations have seen the enormous business generated by the capitalist administration of education. These corporations have disguised the business of building knowledge with the quality and "impact" concept. In Latin America we have been struggling for years for all academic journals to be open access and have no costs to publish or download. Many of these magazines already receive funds from the institutions that created them, therefore they do not need to charge. Today with this idea that to be successful in the academic world you must publish in magazines with impact indicators, prostitute the noble work of scientific research and its dissemination. The advantages are millions ... Finally, you want your work to reach everyone and everyone can access it ... without having to pay or be charged.

In my understanding, one of the main concerns of the OA movement is that scientific publications as results of publicly funded research should be made available to this public free of charge. In classical publication structures it is the case that the knowledge financed by the general public is privatized. OA is intended to prevent this knowledge from having to be repurchased by the general public from the publishers who have obtained the rights of use through the publication.

As far as the financing problem is concerned, it is the case that numerous OA journals are financially supportive of scientists with low budgets and thus allow them to participate.