Author Pays

You may publish your journal in a subscription-based model, but you have problems to sustain revenues, so you consider transforming the journal to author-pays open access model. Or you already publish your journal in publisher-pays open access model, but the journal owner can hardly finance the journal anymore, so you consider transforming the journal to author-pays open access model. In the author-pays model, readers do not pay for access to the content, and publishing costs are borne by the organization to which the author belongs.

 Versita can professionally convert your journal to author-pays model, and then publish it for an agreed period of time. The journal continues to belong to its current owner, and the journal editors continue their work. For successful conversion, the journal should have good impact factor, so that authors keep contributing to the journal, despite publication fees. As a rule, such conversion is immediate, but – if the journal has significant subscription revenues - it can be transitional and last one or two years, during which the journal published both open access and paid access articles.

 Business Model

Versita collects all revenues, and shares them with the journal owner. The main revenue stream comes from so-called Article Processing Charges, paid by authors (or rather their affiliate institutions or other sponsors) of manuscripts accepted for publication. We apply waivers for authors from developing countries, and discounts for journal editors and – if the journal belongs to a society – discounts for its members. Versita covers all standard publishing costs.

 Services

 Versita provides and covers the costs of many solutions and services, including the following: 

1. editorial solutions and services

a) online submission system Editorial Manager
b) plagiarism detection system CrossCheck
c) assisting journal editors to find language editors

2. production solutions and services

a) online hosting platform MetaPress
b) online production tracking system Preprint Manager
c) formatting (from source files to PDF)
d) conversion to XML (for PubMed; for biomedical journals)
e) DOI allocation; metadata distribution to CrossRef
 f) digital print (only for sales)
g) one printed issue for corresponding author of each article

 3. marketing services

a) journal webpage at Versita website
b) arranging for indexing by abstracting services; metadata distribution to such services
c) arranging indexation by Thomson
d) indexing by Google and other search engines
e) promotional electronic leaflet

 4. distribution services

a) full-text distribution to libraries; IP authorization
b) librarian support
c) full-text distribution to aggregators and full-text repositories
d) providing license agreement for users
e) administering permissions
 f) sales and distribution of printed copies

 5. financial solutions and services

a) online system to collect APC
b) arrangements with institutions on institutional memberships

For more details on Versita Open author-pays model, please see the presentation (PDF, 1,67 MB) and the Frequently Asked Questions. Also, please contact us at  sales@versita.com.