Article processing charge (APC) for publishing open access articles: the Brazilian scenario

Pavan, Cleusa; Barbosa, Márcia C.

doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2896-2

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“…A Hybrid Gold OA model or hybrid journal is a subscription-based journal that offers authors the option to publish their articles open access by paying an APC (Solomon & Bjork, 2012;Pavan & Barbosa, 2018). The publishers then allow free access to the journal section paid for by the authors (Sotudeh & Estakhr, 2018).…”

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“…The Open Access (OA) movement changed the scholarly publishing landscape in many revolutionary ways. Governments, research institutions, and funding agencies have started requiring scientists who receive public funding for their research to publish their findings as open access (Pavan & Barbosa, 2018). As publishers require "review and publication costs" to provide free public access to scientific publications, various journal business models have emerged (Sotudeh & Estakhr, 2018, p. 564).…”

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Stony Brook University Author Perspectives on Article Processing Charges

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Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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Stony Brook University Author Perspectives on Article Processing Charges

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Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…In other cases, there may be a desire to experiment, or to imitate other publishers in this area, without clear expectations of likely outcomes. It is important to note, however, that mega-journals are only one of a range of innovations within the scholarly communication system, and therefore co-exist on a spectrum of innovation that ranges from OA publishing platforms such as SciELO [3], and data and broad research output repositories such as RIO [4] at one end, via pre-print servers and institutional repositories to traditional subscription journal publishing. Determining how mega-journals will interact with and shape the development of these other innovations remains a key challenge, and one that requires substantial future research.…”

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Open-access mega-journals

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Pinfield

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Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ a novel form of peer review, focussing on scientific “soundness” and eschewing judgement of novelty or importance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses relating to OAMJs, and their place within scholarly publishing, and considers attitudes towards mega-journals within the academic community. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a review of the literature of OAMJs structured around four defining characteristics: scale, disciplinary scope, peer review policy, and economic model. The existing scholarly literature was augmented by searches of more informal outputs, such as blogs and e-mail discussion lists, to capture the debate in its entirety. Findings While the academic literature relating specifically to OAMJs is relatively sparse, discussion in other fora is detailed and animated, with debates ranging from the sustainability and ethics of the mega-journal model, to the impact of soundness-only peer review on article quality and discoverability, and the potential for OAMJs to represent a paradigm-shifting development in scholarly publishing. Originality/value This paper represents the first comprehensive review of the mega-journal phenomenon, drawing not only on the published academic literature, but also grey, professional and informal sources. The paper advances a number of ways in which the role of OAMJs in the scholarly communication environment can be conceptualised.

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“…Los precios de los APC muestran cantidades variables según diversos estudios (Asai, 2020 Björk, 2016). Los costos de APC en las revistas brasileñas, para el período 2012-2016, representaron un valor promedio de alrededor de 960 $, aunque este fue inferior al costo promedio de publicación en la mayoría de las revistas con APC (Pavan y Barbosa, 2018). Los costes en millones de euros que supusieron los APC totales de tres países en 2013 (a razón de 2.000 € de media por APC) fueron: Francia 92, 140 para Alemania y 144 para Reino Unido, frente a los 618 millones para los Estados Unidos (Schimmer, Geschuhn y Vogler, 2015).…”

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Coste de la publicación en abierto de artículos de autoría española en cinco áreas de las ciencias sociales

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Vidal-Cabo

Benavent

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La publicación en abierto de los artículos conlleva unos gastos conocidos como cargos por procesamiento de artículos (APC, en sus siglas en inglés). El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar el coste de los artículos publicados en abierto mediante APC de autoría española en cinco categorías temáticas de las ciencias sociales: Humanities (Multidisciplinary), Sociology, Information Science & Library Science, Education & Educational Research y Communication de la Colección Principal de la Web of Science (WoS) durante el periodo 2012-2019. Se han identificado las revistas, las instituciones financiadoras y los modelos de publicación más frecuentes. El estudio indica que de las 223 revistas que publicaron artículos con APC las que más lo hicieron fueron Communication & Society (41), Comunicar (34) y el Profesional de la Información (20). El gasto total en APC fue de 481.120,4 € y el coste medio de 1.129 €. Las revistas con mayor coste fueron Computers & Education (34.416 €), Scientometrics (30.380 €) y IEEE Transactions on Learnig Technologies (26.026 €). Los modelos de publicación más frecuentes fueron DOAJ Gold (54%), Green Published (32%) y Green Accepted (28%). En el 53% de los artículos constaba que la financiación procedía del gobierno de España (principalmente a través de ministerios), en el 25% de gobiernos autonómicos, en el 21% de la Unión Europea y en el 20% de las universidades. El coste medio de los APC de las publicaciones estudiadas está dentro de las cantidades habituales a nivel mundial, siendo más caros los APC en revistas con impacto más alto y en las áreas Information Science & Library Science y Sociology. Conocer los APC puede orientar las políticas y el apoyo institucional al acceso abierto y mejorar de los recursos académicos.

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Article processing charge (APC) for publishing open access articles: the Brazilian scenario

Cited by 36 publications

References 20 publications

Stony Brook University Author Perspectives on Article Processing Charges

Stony Brook University Author Perspectives on Article Processing Charges

Open-access mega-journals

Coste de la publicación en abierto de artículos de autoría española en cinco áreas de las ciencias sociales

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