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Extract : David Solomon continued, “It is easy to see why scientists might be sceptical of electronic, open access journals — after all they have their reputation to maintain.

Open access journals that fund publishing with article processing charges (APCs), sometimes called gold open access, are on average cited more than other OA journals.

Since the launch of professionally run high quality biomedical journals in 2000 gold OA has increased by 30% per year and many of these are on a par with their subscription counterparts.”