Open Access article processing charges: a new serial publication crisis? | SciELO in Perspective

lterrat's bookmarks 2016-12-01

Summary:

"A detailed study authored by Madhan Muthu and coworkers1on the effect of article processing charges (APC) on open access publishing in India has recently been published. The authors assed the financial burden of publication fees on science dissemination in that country and propose the creation of a decentralized national platform of OA journals, such as SciELO, to reduce costs, increase efficiency and facilitate sharing of metadata among repositories.

The study has searched articles with at least one Indian author who published in OA journals indexed in the Web of Science – Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) between 2010 and 2014. The search retrieved 37,122 articles, of which 44 were excluded for including hundreds of authors, as a result of international collaborations. The authors, therefore, considered 37,078 articles from which they determined bibliometric data and the APC values levied by each journal. For comparison, the total number of articles and those published in OA on the same SCIE database by another twelve countries was also computed."

Link:

http://blog.scielo.org/en/2016/11/29/open-access-article-processing-charges-a-new-serial-publication-crisis/#.WEC4cKIrIxc

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Tags:

oa.journals oa.south

Date tagged:

12/01/2016, 18:59

Date published:

12/01/2016, 13:59