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An APC Trap? Privilege and the Perception of Reasonableness in Open Access Publishing

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/06/13/an-apc-trap-privilege-and-the-perception-of-reasonableness-in-open-access-publishing/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #GoldOpenAccess #JenniferAMezick #LaurenBCollister #MatthewEstill #MelissaHCantrell #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #RachelCaldwell #ResearchFunding

New Position | EiC-Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC)

JSWSC is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief!
Are you an experienced science editor with a passion for #SpaceWeather & #SpaceClimate?
Come and co-lead this #GoldOpenAccess journal!

🔗 https://bit.ly/4jViPBg

Does open access foster interdisciplinary citations? Decomposing open access citation advantage

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/04/14/does-open-access-foster-interdisciplinary-citations-decomposing-open-access-citation-advantage/

#AkiyoshiMurakami #GoldOpenAccess #KaiNishikawa #metrics #OpenAccess #ResearchImpact

Open access, open infrastructures, and their funding: Learning from histories to more effectively enhance diamond OA ecologies for books

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/03/25/open-access-open-infrastructures-and-their-funding-learning-from-histories-to-more-effectively-enhance-diamond-oa-ecologies-for-books/

#DiamondOpenAccess #GoldOpenAccess #KevinSanders #KiraHopkins #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication

Academic Quality or Commercial Concern? The Role of APCs in Open-Access Communication Studies Journals

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/03/02/academic-quality-or-commercial-concern-the-role-of-apcs-in-open-access-communication-studies-journals/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #BurakIli #CommunicationStudies #GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #ResearchQuality #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #ScientificJournals

Nationale #OpenAccess-Vereinbarung: 100+ deutsche Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen kooperieren mit MDPI. Ab 2025 profitieren Forschende von Rabatten und vereinfachten Prozessen bei #GoldOpenAccess-Publikationen. Die @ZBMED verhandelte den Vertrag. #OpenScience #Wissenschaftskommunikation

https://www.b-u-b.de/detail/open-access-vereinbarung-mdpi

Field-specific gold open access dynamics in the Chinese mainland: Overviews, disparities, and strategic insights

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/10/11/field-specific-gold-open-access-dynamics-in-the-chinese-mainland-overviews-disparities-and-strategic-insights/

#GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccess #ScientificCommunication #XinyiChen #ZhiqiangLiu

Is open access disrupting the journal business? A perspective from comparing full adopters, partial adopters, and non-adopters

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/09/10/is-open-access-disrupting-the-journal-business-a-perspective-from-comparing-full-adopters-partial-adopters-and-non-adopters/

#BusinessModels #GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #ScholarlyJournals #ScientificCommunication #XijieZhang

If you’re interested in how Article Processing Charges (APCs) have changed over the past five years, the data from six major publishers are now available accompanied by a paper on the arXiv with the abstract:

This paper introduces a dataset of article processing charges (APCs) produced from the price lists of six large scholarly publishers – Elsevier, Frontiers, PLOS, MDPI, Springer Nature and Wiley – between 2019 and 2023. APC price lists were downloaded from publisher websites each year as well as via Wayback Machine snapshots to retrieve fees per journal per year. The dataset includes journal metadata, APC collection method, and annual APC price list information in several currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, JPY, CAD) for 8,712 unique journals and 36,618 journal-year combinations. The dataset was generated to allow for more precise analysis of APCs and can support library collection development and scientometric analysis estimating APCs paid in gold and hybrid OA journals.

There’s even an interactive data explorer here, at which link you can also find this very informative summary graphic:

Surprise, surprise: the vast majority have gone up!

These figures apply to Gold and Hybrid Open Access publications, but not to Diamond Open Access journals which are free to both authors and readers and avoid these rip-off charges. In my opinion research institutions would be much better off investing in Diamond Open Access publishing than sending their hard-earned cash to profiteering outfits such as Elsevier.

https://telescoper.blog/2024/07/10/counting-the-cost-of-gold-open-access/

#APC #ArticleProcessingCharges #Elsevier #Frontiers #GoldOpenAccess #MDPI #PLOS #SpringerNature #Wiley

An open dataset of article processing charges from six large scholarly publishers

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/06/21/an-open-dataset-of-article-processing-charges-from-six-large-scholarly-publishers/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #Elsevier #EricSchares #Frontiers #GoldOpenAccess #JuanPabloAlperin #LeighAnnButler #MadelaineHare #MDPI #MonitoringArticleProcessingCharges #NinaSchnfelder #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PLOS #SpringerNatureAndWiley #StefanieHaustein

Open Access, Scholarly Communication, and Open Science in Psychology: An Overview for Researchers

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/05/02/open-access-scholarly-communication-and-open-science-in-psychology-an-overview-for-researchers/

#AcademicSocialNetworks #GoldOpenAccess #LauraBoweringMullen #megajournal #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #OpenScience #Preprint #Psychology #ResearchGate #ScholarlyCommunication #ScientificCommunication

On the Fast Track to Full Gold Open Access

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/03/26/on-the-fast-track-to-full-gold-open-access-2/

#GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #RobertKudeli #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #StateOfTheArt

Is gold open access helpful for academic purification? A causal inference analysis based on retracted articles in biochemistry

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/02/13/is-gold-open-access-helpful-for-academic-purification-a-causal-inference-analysis-based-on-retracted-articles-in-biochemistry/

#biochemistry #BiomedicalResearch #ErTeZheng #GoldOpenAccess #HuiZhenFu #OpenAccess #RetractionsOfPublications #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #ZhichaoFang

On the Fast Track to Full Gold Open Access

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/02/07/on-the-fast-track-to-full-gold-open-access/

#GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccess #RobertKudeli #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication

RT @UNESCO_DCH_ERA: #GoldOpenAccess to the #EU_Study_3D_CH -
#Study on #Quality in #3D #Digitisation of #Tangible #CulturalHeritage @digicultEU @DigitalEU @EU_Commission:
👉 https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-quality-3d-digitisation-tangible-cultural-heritage?fbclid=IwAR0ZyZ0xMLipqLQruUTbyX_bQaaqoUxqROvzsZcnzSsiZYCCk1bzRRo1RYs

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/digicultEU/status/1621484342923993088

I pointed out in 2018 in @TrendsEcolEvo how this raised #ethical problems because with expensive #goldopenaccess there is an alignment of interests between unscrupulous authors and greedy publishers.

Plus, nowadays, all articles are de facto #openaccess thanks to Alexandra Elbakyan or simply thanks to being able to send an #email to the authors.

https://hal.science/hal-01788084/

Für 2022–2024 hat die USB zentral Mittel für die Förderung von Gold Open Access bei der DFG eingeworben. In der Coffee Lecture "Publikationszuschuss Open Access" am 1.12. um 14 Uhr informiert euch Inga Frieman über die Förderbedingungen und wie das Procedere der Rechnungsabwicklung ist. #CoffeeLecture #GoldOpenAccess https://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/forschen_publizieren/coffee_lectures/index_ger.html