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 ...
Étiquette : article-processing charges
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...
Global OA APCs (APC) 2010–2017: Major Trends
Author : Heather Morrison The open access (OA) article processing charges (APC) project is a longitudinal study of the minority of fully OA journals (27% in 201...
Five principles to navigate a bumpy golden road towards open access
Authors : Matthijs van Otegem, Sofie Wennström, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen The publishing ecosystem of the future will be built on several models such as offsett...
Are funder Open Access platforms a good idea?
Authors : Tony Ross-Hellauer, Birgit Schmidt, Bianca Kramer As open access to publications continues to gather momentum we should continuously question whether...