Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published?

Madhan, Muthu; Kimidi, Siva Shankar; Gunasekaran, Subbiah; Arunachalam, Subbiah

doi:10.18520/cs/v112/i04/703-713

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“…Some studies have aimed to calculate APC expenditure at country, funder, disciplinary or publisher level. In India, Madhan et al (2017) estimated that, between 2010 and 2014, researchers spent around US $2.4 million annually on APCs to publish about 15,400 papers in gold OA journals (i.e., excluding hybrid OA), with prices ranging from US $7.5 to US $5000. White et al (2021) studied journal articles published by researchers at all eight New Zealand universities in 2017.…”

Section: Prevalence Of Apcs Price Models Fees Charged and Expense Mon...mentioning

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Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review

Borrego

2023

Learned Publishing

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Some open access (OA) publishers charge authors fees to make their articles freely available online. This paper reviews literature on article processing charges (APCs) that has been published since 2000. Despite praise for diamond OA journals, which charge no fees, most OA articles are published by commercial publishers that charge APCs. Publishers fix APCs depending on the reputation assigned to journals by peers. Evidence shows a relationship between high impact metrics and higher, faster rising APCs.Authors express reluctance about APCs, although this varies by discipline depending on previous experience of paying publication fees and the availability of research grants to cover them. Authors rely on a mix of research grants, library funds and personal assets to pay the charges. Two major concerns have been raised in relation to APCs: the inability of poorly funded authors to publish research and their impact on journal quality. Waivers have not solved the first issue. Research shows little extension of waiver use, unintended side effects on co-author networks and concerns regarding criteria to qualify for them. Bibliometric studies concur that journals that charge APCs have a similar citation impact to journals that rely on other income sources.

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Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review

Borrego

2023

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“…There are voices from the global south against the APC‐based model (Babini & Machin‐Mastromatteo, 2015). APC‐based OA publishing model creates an additional financial burden on the funders (Madhan et al, 2017). In general, replacing the subscription model with paid OA options will automatically increase the financial burden on funding agencies and inequity in the system.…”

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Are journal archiving and embargo policies impeding the success of India's open access policy?

Koley

Lala

2022

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India's primary science funding agencies, the Department of Science & Technology, and the Department of Biotechnology (DST & DBT) together formulated an open access (OA) policy in 2014. This policy mandates immediate self-archival of research articles generated from publicly funded research across all the institutions in suitable repositories. But with inadequate infrastructure and awareness, the OA mandate did not flourish as expected. This paper aims to understand whether journal policies impede the prospect of DST-DBT OA policy and the possible routes to achieve policy compliance. The analysis presented in this paper tracks down the journal self-archiving policies of the top 50 popular journals (among Indian authors) from each of the six STEM fields-Biology, Chemistry, Clinical-Medicine, Engineering, Materials science, and Physics. The results show that most journals have an embargo of 12-24 months on self-archiving of the post-print (final author version after peer-review), which contradicts the DST-DBT OA mandate. The study also reveals that hybrid journals dominate, and article processing charges craft a new form of inequity forIndian STEM researchers. We expect that these findings will be helpful for the funding agencies to restructure their policies, and negotiate with journal publishers to resolve the contradictions.

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“…The open access system of research publications needs to be stopped. As also argued recently by Madhan et al (2017), the funding agencies should not pay for publication charges since doing that would negate possible support to many other researchers in the research-funds-starved situation that we face. Instead, we need to encourage institutional and national repositories where soft copies of research publications are maintained and made available to all interested readers without any charge.…”

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“…Since authors find it difficult to pay the hefty charges demanded and dictated by the publication houses, an arrangement has been arrived at so that the funding agency meets the costs of publication of results coming out of its research funding. Madhan et al (2017) have recently estimated that India is potentially spending about US$ 2.4 million per year on open access journals and that the amount would be much more if the article processing charges paid to make papers published in hybrid open access journals are also taken into account. This obviously means that substantial amounts that could have been available to support more research, actually end in the coffers of publication houses.…”

Section: Subhash C Lakhotiamentioning

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The Fraud of Open Access Publishing

Lakhotia

2017

Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy

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Should Indian Researchers Pay to Get their Work Published?

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review

Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review

Are journal archiving and embargo policies impeding the success of India's open access policy?

The Fraud of Open Access Publishing

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