With open access, you have the liberty of getting more citations because everyone can read it and draw conclusions or relate to their findings, for which a researcher at one end pays the money and get citations for it. But there comes another problem in research community with policy makers deciding on spending money at the expense of research. The head of many research organizations and research policy makers in developing countries (some institutions in India) believe paying money to get your work published is wrong or unethical, and they imply strict regulations on not allowing open access publications at the cost of public/citizen's money. Where does a researcher stand, when on one end open source gets noticed because people get to read it, but on the other hand submitting to open access is banned because it costs a fortune.
How would you put it ??
Not all open access publication required you to pay for the APC. Some were free and some were paid by the conference. In somehow, APC seen as a burden by the organization as they need to pay instead of just free if we choose the traditional way. However there area many benefit we can get especially the copyright and visibility or the organization which is worth to pay. At the end ranking and accreditation will come to support. The open access will also go through the peer reviewed process and thus choosing the impact open access journal perhaps would help in convincing the management of it.
In fact, if you search on DOAJ.ORG, you'll find that most OA journals are without publishing charges.
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