Open access publishing in Serbia | EIFL

"Most Serbian OA journals are publicly-funded and do not levy Article Processing Charges (APCs - publication fees that journals sometimes charge authors or their institutions to make a work available in OA). In 2011, after the international economic crisis of 2008 and withdrawal of some government funding for journals, EIFL supported a project that included research into whether Serbian OA journals could switch to an APC business model. However, an APC business model for journal publishing has proved not to be viable in Serbia, because it was not affordable.

In 2016, there were about 400 journals in Serbia that were freely available online. However,  the transition to e-publishing had not yet been completed. Serbian OA journals were basically traditional print journals with online versions that were freely available. Some were not fully aware of their OA status, and most did not have explicitly defined journal or OA policies."