Why open-access publication should be nonprofit—a view from the field of theoretical language science

Many of my fellow theoretical linguistics researchers have not noticed the momentous changes in the world of science publication yet. When confronted with the idea that publication costs should be covered by author fees (“author processing charges,” or APCs), they often react with disbelief and indignation.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2013-06-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00057PMID 23760738PMCID 3674310
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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