« (…) Institutions and consortia who manage publication charges on behalf of their authors need to gain a clearer understanding of pricing mechanisms as well as develop their own goals in this respect, in order to progress towards a sustainable and transparent APC market. To this end, the 3rd ESAC workshop…
« Le consortium Couperin a lancé, en 2017, une enquête sur la pratique des APC (Article Processing Charges) dans plusieurs universités et organismes de recherche français. Ce recueil d’informations a pour but d’obtenir une première idée de l’impact global de ces dépenses sur les budgets des établissements et, in fine, d’obtenir…
« Bon à savoir : quand vous avez publié dans une revue en open access, et que votre laboratoire (ou celui de vos co-auteurs), a payé des frais de publication (Article Processing Charges, APC), si la revue en demande, vous pouvez déposer dans HAL AMU, et sans délai,…
« The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France. A first batch of data has now been kindly made available to OpenAPC, more is to follow soon. (…) »
« Every year, Jisc asks UK HEIs to provide details of the individual article processing charges (APC) transactions they’ve made throughout the year using a standardised template. This ongoing project started in 2013 with 17 institutions participating. Since then, the project has expanded to include data on 36,000…
« A new report outlines how Springer Nature has been able to deliver rapid growth in gold open access (OA) articles in the UK. (…)
The rapid growth in UK articles published via the gold OA route has been driven by a number of factors:
1. A strong uptake of…
« Purpose: The present study explored tendencies of the world’s countries—at individual and scientific development levels—toward publishing in APC-funded open access journals.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Using a bibliometric method, it studied OA and NOA articles issued in Springer and Elsevier’s APC journals during 2007–2011. The data were gathered using a wide number of…
« Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have announced a new pilot agreement to help grow the society’s participation in open access publishing.
The new Institutional Research Licence has been developed by IOP to enable institutions to manage the cost of hybrid article publication charges (APCs) against their journals licence fee,…
« Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global leader in content management, copyright licensing, discovery and delivery solutions, recently launched the OA Agreement Manager, the first integrated publishing workflow solution to help eliminate the cost and friction from processing funded open access (OA) articles for all stakeholders. (…) »
« Using a database of recent articles published in the field of Global Health research, we examine institutional sources of stratification in publishing access outcomes. Traditionally, the focus on inequality in scientific publishing has focused on prestige hierarchies in established print journals. This project examines stratification in contemporary publishing with a…
