Open Access Charges – Consolidation Continues - Delta Think

With almost 55,000 APC data points in our database, we are able to identify emerging trends in pricing. Hybrid prices appear to be holding steady, although – as we predicted this time last year – we see higher charges at the higher end of the market. Meanwhile, the lowest fully OA APCs are getting lower, and there seems to be a downwards move in prices of fully OA journals – a reversal of what we saw last year. It appears that a two-tier market is emerging, with hybrid prices holding their own, and fully OA prices decreasing. ...