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"The vast majority of professional OA publishers that charge article processing fees do not ask authors to transfer copyright. Most reputable ones use one of the creative commons licenses.

Also, virtually no scholarly journal OA or for that matter subscription pays authors anything for their work. Publishing is expected as part of a faculty member's job and we get rewarded by our institutions though salary promotions and keeping our jobs. That is why academics publish.

I started up and ran an OA journal with some colleagues for 12 years without the support of a publisher before transferring it to a very reputable OA publisher that charges publication fees. We would have preferred not to charge authors but did it because the publishing aspect got to be too much work and we couldn't provide the kind of quality publishing a professional publisher can which was something my colleagues and I wanted for the journal.

To do it well, I mean get a journal copy edited, in to in a variety of formats, adequately archived, indexed, assign DOIs and all the other things professional publishers do takes a lot more time, effort and expertise than most faculty have. Sure, if you have a scholarly publishing office at your institution that can help with that, it can be done but most universities including mine do not.

Publishers deserve to make a living just like anyone else. It takes expertise and a lot of effort to do well. Article processing fees have a number of disadvantages but are about the only way currently to fund high quality OA publishing which in my view is a whole lot better than charging subscription fees. There are a lot of very low quality OA publishers out just to make money but there are also high quality professional OA publishers and it really bothers me when they get lumped together.

Dave Solomon