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No. The "special offer" was for the publication fee. Major publishers have decided that they can charge extra for open access papers.

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They charge extra, because making it open-access prevents them from charging readers as they would normally do.

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They charge extra, because making it open-access prevents them from charging readers as they would normally do.

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