Editing Open access (section)

==== Gold OA ====
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| caption1 = Number of gold open access journals listed in the [[Directory of Open Access Journals]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 May 2013 |title=DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals |url=http://doaj.org/doaj?func=byCountry&uiLanguage=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501070724/http://doaj.org/doaj?func=byCountry&uiLanguage=en |archive-date=1 May 2013 |website=doaj.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Morrison |first=Heather |date=31 December 2018 |title=Dramatic Growth of Open Access |journal=Scholars Portal Dataverse |hdl=10864/10660}}</ref>
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| caption2 = Number of gold and hybrid open access journals listed in [[PubMed Central]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=PMC full journal list download |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/#csvfile |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307203024/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/#csvfile |archive-date=7 March 2019 |access-date=10 March 2019 |website=National Center for Biotechnology Information}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=NLM Catalog |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/advanced |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114073305/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/advanced |archive-date=14 January 2019 |access-date=10 March 2019 |website=National Center for Biotechnology Information}}</ref>
}}In the gold OA model, the publisher makes all articles and related content available for free immediately on the journal's website. In such publications, articles are licensed for sharing and reuse via [[Creative Commons]] licenses or similar.<ref name="suber overview" />
Many gold OA publishers charge an [[article processing charge]]  (APC), which is typically paid through institutional or grant funding. The majority of gold open access journals charging APCs follow an "author-pays" model,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schroter |first1=Sara |last2=Tite |first2=Leanne |date=2006 |title=Open access publishing and author-pays business models: a survey of authors' knowledge and perceptions |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine]] |volume=99 |issue=3 |pages=141–148 |doi=10.1177/014107680609900316  |pmc=1383760 |pmid=16508053}}</ref>
although this is not an intrinsic property of gold OA.<ref name="Eve pp. 1–42">{{cite book | last=Eve | first=Martin Paul | title= Open Access and the Humanities| chapter=Introduction, or why open access? | date=3 December 2023 | publisher=Cambridge Core | doi=10.1017/CBO9781316161012.003 | url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/open-access-and-the-humanities/introduction-or-why-open-access/31C49315B15F3366C9D3ECEFF72F15D6 | access-date=2020-12-30 | pages=1–42| isbn=9781107097896 }}</ref>