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:

  1. Pay a submission fee to cover peer review, with an additional publication fee if their article is accepted, or
  2. 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)...."

Link:

https://rhollick.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/apcs/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.fees oa.business_models

Date tagged:

01/22/2020, 10:26

Date published:

01/22/2020, 05:26