CSC - Paying for Open Access – The author’s perspective - Blog Post

"As the discussion around journal subscription prices and conditions of open access was the only thing that has been hot in Finland this summer, due to the Elsevier boycott, the recently published Knowledge Exchange study enlightens another aspect to money flows regarding open access (OA) publishing.

When authors select a journal to publish their article, they have plenty of choice: there are about 34,500 scholarly peer-reviewed journal titles, one third of which are now Open Access (OA) journals. So, do open access aspects play a role in the authors’ selection of journals? And if so, for which reasons? And if Article Processing Charges (APCs) apply, a fee paid to the publisher to make an article freely available online, how does the author pay for these costs?"