APCs*
peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-01-22
Summary:
"Tim Vines is proposing a middle way: “An alternative is to give authors a choice of how they pay for their article:
- Pay a submission fee to cover peer review, with an additional publication fee if their article is accepted, or
- Submit for free, but pay a (much higher) APC if their article is accepted.”
My problem here is with the absence of the 3rd choice — the old-fashioned one of free submission and free publication, with a nasty publisher selling the journal to subscribers (and of course making obscene profits by so doing)...."