APC (Article Processing Charge) & Subscription Fee

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
EJMS Journals
Keyword(s):  
Article Processing Charge

APC (Article Processing Charge) & Subscription Fee

Call for co-signing a paper: Increasing collaboration, fostering open science, and sharing the Article Processing Charge (APC)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Pereira Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Open Science ◽  
Article Processing Charge

We argue that sharing one's research with citizens and other scientists is a win-win crowd science strategy.

scholarly journals Financiamento público no Brasil para a publicação de artigos em acesso aberto: alguns apontamentos

Em Questão ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleusa Pavan ◽  
Marcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Article Processing Charge

O número de revistas de acesso aberto aumentou ao longo dos últimos anos e o pagamento de taxa de processamento de artigo (Article Processing Charge) tem sido o modelo de sustento adotado por algumas editoras. O objetivo do estudo é averiguar a existência de uma política brasileira de financiamento público para a publicação de artigos em acesso aberto, investigando 29 agências de fomento, por meio de questionário e da análise dos sites institucionais. Verifica-se que a minoria das agências possui uma política para financiar os custos das taxas para publicação. A reavaliação do sistema de fomento brasileiro e a criação de uma política estratégica se fazem necessárias.

scholarly journals CytoJournal′s move to fund Open Access

CytoJournal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Vinod B Shidham ◽  
Anthony F Cafaro ◽  
Barbara F Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Biomed Central ◽  
Financial Viability ◽  
Article Processing Charge

CytoJournalis published by an independent publisher BioMed Central, which is committed to ensuring that the peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access. Since its launch, BioMed Central has graciously supported the processing of all the articles published duringCytoJournal′ s first 6 months. However, for long term viability,CytoJournalhas to achieve financial viability to support publication expenses. From 1st March, 2005, authors will be asked by the publisher to pay a flat article-processing charge. This editorial discusses how a significant proportion of authors may not have to pay this fee directly under a variety of different mechanisms such as institutional and society memberships with BioMed Central.

scholarly journals The cost-effectiveness of the article-processing-charge-funded model across countries in different scientific blocks: the case of Elsevier's hybrid open access journals

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohreh Estakhr ◽  
Hajar Sotudeh ◽  
Javad Abbaspour ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Article Processing Charge ◽  
Publishing Article ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Citation Advantage

Introduction. The present study investigated the cost-effectiveness of article-processing-charge-funded model across the world countries in terms of its citation value proportional to the article processing charges. Method. Using a comparative citation analysis method at the macro level, it explored a sample of articles in forty-seven Elsevier hybrid open access journals that had been following the model since 2007. Analysis. The contributing countries' open access citation advantages were calculated based on the percentage of their open access citation surplus proportional to that of their non-open access articles. Their relative open access citation cost-effectiveness was obtained based on their open access citation counts proportional to the article processing charges, normalised by those of non-open access papers. The countries were categorised into four scientific blocks using Rand's categorization of countries' scientific development. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data in SPSS. Results. The results supported the citation advantage of the article-processing-charge-funded papers, encompassing the majority of the contributing countries in the four scientific development blocks. The articles showed relative cost-effectiveness over the years and for most countries in all the scientific development blocks. Conclusions. Publishing article-processing-charge-funded papers is relatively cost-effective, implying higher visibility and influence in exchange for the money paid.

scholarly journals APCs – How much should they cost?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Markie
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Indirect Costs ◽  
Press Release ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
New Work ◽  
Direct And Indirect Costs ◽  
Article Processing Charge ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Publishing Services ◽  
Gold Open Access

Gold Open Access can be facilitated by an Article Processing Charge (APC), which refers to the author-facing charge levied for publishing an article openly in a specific journal. These charges vary significantly across journals and recently there has been a demand for publishers to be more transparent about how their APCs are calculated. Plan S has clearly set the need for transparency in its principles and implementations stating “When Open Access publication fees are applied, they must be commensurate with the publication services delivered and the structure of such fees must be transparent to inform the market and funders potential standardisation and capping of payments of fees”. This presentation will provide a landscape analysis of publishers, new initiatives (such as the new work just commissioned by the Wellcome and UKRI on behalf of cOAlition S on providing a framework to enable more transparent communication of OA publishing services and prices; http://www.informationpower.co.uk/news/press-release-transparent-comms-of-oa-services-and-prices/) and the current transparency around APCs and explore the range of direct and indirect costs of what constitutes an APC.

scholarly journals Can I Afford to Publish? A Dilemma for African Scholars

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Addisu Mekonnen ◽  
Colleen Downs ◽  
Edu Effiom ◽  
Mohamed Kibaja ◽  
Michael Lawes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Average Cost ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Grant Funding ◽  
Wall Model ◽  
Article Processing Charge

With open-access publishing authors pay an article processing charge and subsequently their article is freely available online. These charges are beyond the reach of most African academics. Thus, the trend towards open access publishing will shift the business model from a pay-wall model, where access to literature is limited, to a pay-to-publish one, where African scholars cannot afford to publish. We explore the costs of publishing and the ability of African scholars to afford to publish as open access. Three-quarters of the 40 top ecology journals required payment for open-access publishing (average cost $3,150). Paying such fees is a hardship for African scholars as grant funding is not available and it is not feasible to pay the fees themselves as salaries are low. We encourage funders and publishers to facilitate an equitable publishing model that allows African scholars to make their research available through open-access publishing.

scholarly journals Three new suggested guidelines for increased transparency regarding open access article processing charges (APCs)

2020 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Article Processing Charge ◽  
Wide Debate ◽  
Financial Transparency ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Gold Open Access ◽  
Open Access Article

The article processing charge (APC) lies at the heart of the gold open access (GOA) business model. Small and larger society-based, as well as commercial publishers, rely – to different extents – on the APC and the GOA model to thrive. There is wide debate regarding what amount of APC is considered to be exploitative, and the issue of low APCs is often erroneously associated with “predatory” OA publishing. Independent of this debate, there is still, surprisingly, considerable opacity related to the APC used to cover the cost of  GOA. In a bid to increase transparency, a simple 3-point plan at increasing academic and financial transparency of authors and journals/publishers regarding APCs is proposed: 1) indicate which author paid the APC in multi-author papers; 2) indicate the value of the APC paid; 3) provide online proof or certification of APC payment, including the indication of any discounts or waivers.

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