International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences [PDF]
Background: Open access (OA) implies free and unrestricted access to and re-use of research articles. Recently, OA publishing has seen a new wave of interest, debate, and practices surrounding that mode of publishing.Objectives: To provide an overview of
Olivier Pourret +5 more
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Introducing Article Processing Charges to Create a Sustainable Future
Fanglian He +2 more
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Open Access Beyond Article Processing Charges
A comment on “For NGOs, article-processing charges sap conservation funds” by Wood et al.
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Article processing charge may be a barrier to publishing [PDF]
Recently most of the journals charge a fee known as article processing charge (APC) for publication of an article. These charges can vary from journal to journal. This publication fee is often paid by the author, the author's institution, or their research funder organization. Though low- and middle-income countries are usually exempted from APC, India
Vijay Kumar Jain +2 more
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Paying to publish: A cross-sectional analysis of article processing charges and journal characteristics among 87 pathology journals. [PDF]
Clark LM +10 more
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Open Access eXchange (OAeX): an economic model and platform for fundraising open scholarship services [PDF]
This article describes the Open Access eXchange (OAeX) project, a pragmatic and comprehensive economic model and fundraising platform for open scholarship initiatives.
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Predatory Publications in the Era of Internet and Technology: A Comment [PDF]
In an article published in this journal entitled “Predatory publications in the era of internet and technology: Open access publications are at risk”, Akhilesh Kumar, Ravi Gupta, Krishna Kant Tripathi & Rajani Ranjan Singh argue that the definition of ...
Gregory T. Papanikos
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Drivers of Article Processing Charges in Open Access [PDF]
AbstractLarge publishing companies have been dominating scientific publishing for long, which leads to high subscription fees and inhibited access to scientific knowledge. At digital era, the opportunity of an unrestricted access appears feasible, because the cost of publishing should be low.
Oliver Budzinski +3 more
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Investigating the Blind Spot of a Monitoring System for Article Processing Charges
The Open Access (OA) publishing model that is based on article processing charges (APC) is often associated with the potential for more transparency regarding the expenditures for publications.
Andre Bruns, Niels Taubert
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Predatory Publications in the Era of the Internet and Technology: Open Access Publications are at Risk [PDF]
This article is intended to highlight the issue of predatory journals and how they have been used to degrade the open-access journals to be perceived as predatory ones.
Akhilesh Kumar +3 more
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