[Open-access] How many OA journals charge APCs

Thu May 14 12:54:24 UTC 2015

This article from Heather Morrison et al might be useful:
http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/3/1/1 - 26% of journals in DOAJ charge APCs.

Thanks,
Stuart

On 14 May 2015 at 13:17, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:

>  Thanks - that's useful Mike. Would be interesting to visualise some of
> this data - to see the increase/difference over the years.
>
> I'd found this article by Kozak and Hartley from 2013
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22972/abstract which found
> that " only 28% charged authors for publishing in their journals. This
> figure, however, was highest in various disciplines in medicine (47%) and
> the sciences (43%) and lowest in the humanities (4%) and the arts (0%)."
>
> Marieke
>
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>
> On 14/05/2015 13:10, Mike Taylor wrote:
>
> Peter Suber has been tracking this for years. Seehttps://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/Cqv4oq3LuFr
>
> On 14 May 2015 at 13:03, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>  Question for you all!
>
> Does anyone know of any recent studies or stats on the number of OA journals
> that charge APCs. Preferably at a European level but anything will do.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marieke
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