Monitoring open access publishing costs at Stockholm University
Author : Lisa Lovén Stockholm University Library (SUB) has been tracking the University’s open access (OA) publishing costs within the local accounting system s...
Étiquette : article-processing charges
Scholarly journals in building and civil engineering – the big picture and current impact of open access
Author : Bo-Christer Björk The publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals has in the past 20 years moved from print to primarily digital publishing, but the...
OpenAPC: a contribution to a transparent and reproducible monitoring of fee-based open access publishing across institutions and nations
Authors : Dirk Pieper, Christoph Broschinski The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funde...
Predatory Open Access Journals Publishing: What, Why and How?
Author : Shamprasad M. Pujar The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing and made the availability of online resources possible, both in subscription and ...
APCs – Mirroring the impact factor or legacy of the subscription-based model?
Author : Nina Schönfelder With the ongoing open-access transformation, article processing charges (APCs) are gaining importance as the dominant business model f...
Open access monitoring and business model in Latin America and Middle East: a comparative study based on DOAJ data and criteria
Authors : Ivonne Lujano, Mahmoud Khalifa This research will focus on analyzing the state of open access journals in two regions of developing countries (Latin A...
The Cost of Astronomy Publishing fees in astronomy: Is something rotten in the case of Denmark?
Author : Bertil F. Dorch Using Scopus and national sources, I have investigated the evolution of the cost of publishing in Danish astronomy on a fine scale over...