In this article I analyse attitudes of academic authors toward open
access and frequency of choosing open access publication venues by them.
I characterize differences between authors based in the periphery
countries and the core countries, with regard to choosing so called gold
open access as a way of publishing academic articles. The data were
obtained with an on-line survey. Emails containing links to the survey
were sent to 107,296 scholars listed on the mailing lists belonging to De
GruyterOpen, from December 2015 to January 2016. 1012 responses were
received. Authors from the periphery countries publish their articles in
gold open access more often. They also pay open access publication fees
equally often as those based in the core countries. The reasons for
that are complex, involving both their preference to publish in open
access and the composition of publishing market in the periphery.
