Article Processing Charges: A New Route to Open Access?
peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-07-09
Summary:
"Abstract: Article Processing Charges (APCs) have recently been studied as a means towards a sustainable Open Access (OA) environment for scholarly communications. However, APCs at any level represent a substantial economic barrier to the authors, institutions, funding agencies and governments that many of its advocates most wish to serve through OA initiatives."