Why is there a mixed model of funding for NAR?
We have chosen this model in consultation with authors and librarians. The ability of authors to pay publication charges is highly dependent on sponsoring agencies and research institutions making the necessary changes to their funding processes so that authors have the funds at their disposal. For this reason we believe that there needs to be a gradual transition to an author-funded Open Access model. We hope that you will support Open Access by taking out / maintaining an institutional membership thus providing researchers based at your institution the opportunity to benefit from discounted author charges. By doing this we hope to establish an accessible charging scheme that will actively encourage funding agencies to make further resources available for publication. We expect the balance of publication funding to shift towards individual author charges in the future.
