How do journals convert from Toll Access to Open Access?
Many of the open access journals that are available now, once began as toll access journals and publications. Toll access is close to what it sounds like, in order to use the journal the user must pay a fee. This fee would reduce the cost to the author/publisher of the paper. Open access journals are almost the complete opposite, the information is free to users to access, however there is an extra cost for the publisher to get his/her work out there to more people.[1] Journals can convert from a TA (toll access) to a OA(open access) in two different ways. The gradual method is a way for journals that have toll access to slowly transition into an open access. This is done by giving the authors an option to pay an article-processing fee (APC). If the author chooses to pay this extra fee, then their article will be placed in an OA (open access) section of the website. This is more of a 50/50 toll access journal then a full open access journal. The second method is a sudden conversion to
