What is Golden Open Access?

Golden Open Access is a model whereby the scientific journals charge a one-off amount to publish a peer-reviewed article, so that users have free access to the article. At present the implementation of this model would entail an increase in the State’s aggregate costs, when compared with the existing publication model, as the publishers charge for Open Access publishing of the individual article, while the research institutions pay license fees to the publishers which have not yet become full-fledged Open Access journals, in order to subscribe to those same journals.