Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant
Authors : Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Tormod Eismann Strømme Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll access journals open access, taking f...
Étiquette : article-processing charges
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...
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...