(27 Feb 2026) The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) looks set to bar paying the highest fees for its researchers to publish in high-profile journals. These include around 30 journals such as Nature Communications, Cell Reports and Science Advances, according to a report in Science. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US is also considering setting limits on journal charges for open access.
The report said that a draft policy was sent out to researchers in China that would stop them using academy money to pay article processing charges (APCs), a fee paid to publishers to make articles open access. The same policy will also prevent other central government agencies from carrying the cost of APCs. The new policy also blocks payment for over 100 journals viewed as being mired in ‘research-integrity problems’, Science reports.
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