(21 Apr 2023) More than 40 editors have resigned from two leading neuroscience journals in protest against what the editors say are excessively high article-processing charges (APCs) set by the publisher. They say that the fees, which publishers use to cover publishing services and in some cases make money, are unethical. The publisher, Dutch company…
Academics from 107 low- and middle-income countries will be able to publish their research open access in Cambridge journals at no cost to them. (11 Apr 2023) The Cambridge Open Equity Initiative allows scholars to reach the widest possible audience by making open access a free option for them. The publisher is seeking support for the…
(5 Jan 2023) Critics have hit out at the way in which the open access switch – from paying for journal subscriptions to paying for research to be published – has been managed and are calling for an end to what they describe as “massive” upfront fees that academic institutes or authors pay to ensure their…
(9 Jan 2023) From today, primary research from authors from over 70 countries classified by the World Bank as low-income (LIC) or lower-middle-income economies (LMICs) accepted for publication in either Nature or one of the Nature research journals (e.g. Nature Chemistry, Nature Sustainability) can now be published Gold open access at no cost. This move recognizes…
(11 Oct 2022) The publisher of the prestigious journal Science will soon allow the authors of its research papers to make public an almost-final version of their manuscript in a repository of their choice immediately on publication, without paying any fees. This approach differs to that taken by the publishers of similarly high-impact journals Cell and Nature, which charge most authors…
(6 Jan 2021) The article, “Waiving Article Processing Charges for Least Developed Countries: A Keystone of a Large-scale Open Access Transformation”, authored by Taubert, Niels, Andre Bruns, Christopher Lenke, and Graham Stone: “This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house to waive article processing charges for the group of…
(8 Jan 2020) In the new year, IGI Global is offering a number of opportunities for researchers to publish their work under OA. From January 1st to January 31st, authors can submit their article manuscripts under OA to a select list of IGI Global journals free of any article processing charges (APCs) (our APC fee for…
(9 October 2015) A thousand dollars, a hundred thousand or a million? Peter Lund, the UC Research Support Manager and Anton Angelo, Research Data Co-ordinator, University of Canterbury, New Zealand have tried to calculate how much the University of Canterbury pays in article processing charges (APCs). The question was not easy to answer. University financial systems were…