HOW IT WORKS
Open access to research implies that the published scientific papers are in a digital format, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
However, publishing still has costs that need to be covered. These include publishing and review process coordination, English language proof-reading and corrections, typesetting, Author and Editor support, indexing and archiving, promotional activities, online publishing technology, digital presentation and preservation, promotion and dissemination of your work, printing and express delivery of one hard copy of the publication which is sent directly to the contributing Editors and Authors.
For a publisher to sustain open access to all of its publications, it is necessary to defray the editorial and production costs by collecting Article Processing Charges (APC) from Authors' institutes or research funding bodies.
Open access publishing offers the same indexing, archiving, searching and linking capabilities that are a part of conventional publishing.