Article processing charge (APC)

« This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some fully open access journals (gold) and in subscription journals to make individual articles open access (hybrid). There is…

« This open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) was produced from the price lists of six large scholarly publishers (Elsevier, Frontiers, PLOS, MDPI, Springer-Nature and Wiley) from 2019 to 2023. APC price lists were downloaded from publisher websites each year as well as via Wayback Machine snapshots to retrieve…

« Open access — the free availability of scholarly publications — intuitively offers many benefits. At the same time, some academics, university administrators, publishers, and political decision-makers express reservations. Many empirical studies on the effects of open access have been published in the last decade. This report provides an…

« (…) Against the backdrop of the information introduced above regarding diamond OA, the aim of this Special Issue is to collect contributions that analyse diamond OA publishing models from all perspectives. It seeks to contribute to our understanding of the operation of such journals, explore their strengths and weaknesses, and…

« Conversely to diamond open access, gold open access is associated with article processing charges (APCs), which may represent an important burden in research budgets. The aim of this study was to identify the level of dependence of Portuguese scholarly publications from the five major APC-based publishers: BMC, Frontiers, Hindawi, MDPI,…

« This study aims to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley between 2015 and 2018. Using publication data from WoS, OA status from Unpaywall and…

« La cOAlition S a publié en juin dernier un rapport synthétisant les données fournies par 2326 revues faisant partie du programme des revues transformantes (transformative journals) concernant la proportion de leurs contenus en Open Access. (…) »

« Some open access (OA) publishers charge authors fees to make their articles freely available online. This paper reviews literature on article processing charges (APCs) that has been published since 2000. (…) »

« Dans le but de faciliter le travail des négociateurs Couperin, le groupe de travail Négociation Open Access du consortium a conduit une enquête sur les clauses science ouverte (volets open access) des accords et les politiques sur les frais Auteurs-payeurs (APC) des établissements. Cette enquête poursuit plusieurs objectifs :

« More and more academics and governements consider that the open access model based on Article Processing Charges (APC) is problematic, not only due to the inequalities it generates and reinforces, but also because it has become unsustainable and even opposed to open access values. (…) This article explores the practical…