• Fee Waivers for Open Access Journals

    Author(s):
    Stuart Lawson (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    article processing charges, open access, fee waivers, Scholarly communication
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6V32P
    Abstract:
    Open access journals which charge article processing charges (APCs) sometimes offer fee waivers to authors who cannot afford to pay them. This article measures the extent of this practice among the largest toll access and open access publishers by gathering stated fee waiver policies from publishers’ websites. A majority (68.8%) were found to offer fee waivers and sometimes they are only available to authors from low- and middle-income countries. This has implications for the ability of authors without funding to publish in journals from these publishers.
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.3390/publications3030155
    Publisher:
    MDPI
    Pub. Date:
    2015-8-18
    Journal:
    Publications
    Volume:
    3
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    155 - 167
    ISSN:
    2304-6775
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
    License:
    Attribution
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