Scholarly journal publishing in transition – from restricted to open access
Authors : Bo-Christer Björk While the business models used in most segments of the media industry have been profoundly changed by the Internet surprisingly litt...
Étiquette : article-processing charges
Elsevier: Among the World’s Largest Open Access Publishers as of 2016
Author : Heather Morrison Highlights of this broad-brush case study of Elsevier’s Open Access (OA) journals as of 2016: Elsevier offers 511 fully OA journals an...
Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?
Authors : Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran, Subbiah Arunachalam We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers publ...
Business process costs of implementing “gold” and “green” open access in institutional and national contexts
Authors : Robert Johnson, Stephen Pinfield, Mattia Fosci As open access (OA) publication of research outputs becomes increasingly common and is mandated by inst...
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
Authors : Najko Jahn, Marco Tullney Publication fees as a revenue source for open access publishing hold a prominent place on the agendas of researchers, policy...
Article processing charges for open access publication—the situation for research intensive universities in the USA and Canada
Authors : David Solomon, Bo-Christer Björk Background Open access (OA) publishing via article processing charges (APCs) is growing as an alternative to subscrip...
A longitudinal study of independent scholar-published open access journals
Authors : Bo-Christer Björk, Cenyu Shen, Mikael Laakso Open Access (OA) is nowadays increasingly being used as a business model for the publishing of scholarly ...