#goldopenaccess — Public Fediverse posts

Funders open access mandates: uneven uptake and challenging models

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/03/15/funders-open-access-mandates-uneven-uptake-and-challenging-models/

#GoldOpenAccess #GreenRoad #LucaCspedes #MadelaineHare #OpenAccess #OpenAccessMandates #PhilippeMongeon #ScientificCommunication #SimonVanBellen #VincentLarivire

This is extremely interesting!! https://treemaps.openapc.net/

#DEAL #APC #OpenAccess #GoldOpenAccess #cost #publishing #university #Germany

APC waivers and Ukraine’s publishing output in Gold OA journals: Evidence from five commercial publishers

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/10/15/apc-waivers-and-ukraines-publishing-output-in-gold-oa-journals-evidence-from-five-commercial-publishers/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #SerhiiNazarovets #Ukraine

An APC Trap? Privilege and the Perception of Reasonableness in Open Access Publishing

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/06/13/an-apc-trap-privilege-and-the-perception-of-reasonableness-in-open-access-publishing/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #GoldOpenAccess #JenniferAMezick #LaurenBCollister #MatthewEstill #MelissaHCantrell #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #RachelCaldwell #ResearchFunding

Academic Quality or Commercial Concern? The Role of APCs in Open-Access Communication Studies Journals

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/03/02/academic-quality-or-commercial-concern-the-role-of-apcs-in-open-access-communication-studies-journals/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #BurakIli #CommunicationStudies #GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #ResearchQuality #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #ScientificJournals

Nationale #OpenAccess-Vereinbarung: 100+ deutsche Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen kooperieren mit MDPI. Ab 2025 profitieren Forschende von Rabatten und vereinfachten Prozessen bei #GoldOpenAccess-Publikationen. @[email protected] verhandelte den Vertrag. #OpenScience #Wissenschaftskommunikation

https://www.b-u-b.de/detail/open-access-vereinbarung-mdpi

If you’re interested in how Article Processing Charges (APCs) have changed over the past five years, the data from six major publishers are now available accompanied by a paper on the arXiv with the abstract:

This paper introduces a dataset of article processing charges (APCs) produced from the price lists of six large scholarly publishers – Elsevier, Frontiers, PLOS, MDPI, Springer Nature and Wiley – between 2019 and 2023. APC price lists were downloaded from publisher websites each year as well as via Wayback Machine snapshots to retrieve fees per journal per year. The dataset includes journal metadata, APC collection method, and annual APC price list information in several currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, JPY, CAD) for 8,712 unique journals and 36,618 journal-year combinations. The dataset was generated to allow for more precise analysis of APCs and can support library collection development and scientometric analysis estimating APCs paid in gold and hybrid OA journals.

There’s even an interactive data explorer here, at which link you can also find this very informative summary graphic:

Surprise, surprise: the vast majority have gone up!

These figures apply to Gold and Hybrid Open Access publications, but not to Diamond Open Access journals which are free to both authors and readers and avoid these rip-off charges. In my opinion research institutions would be much better off investing in Diamond Open Access publishing than sending their hard-earned cash to profiteering outfits such as Elsevier.

https://telescoper.blog/2024/07/10/counting-the-cost-of-gold-open-access/

#APC #ArticleProcessingCharges #Elsevier #Frontiers #GoldOpenAccess #MDPI #PLOS #SpringerNature #Wiley

An open dataset of article processing charges from six large scholarly publishers

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/06/21/an-open-dataset-of-article-processing-charges-from-six-large-scholarly-publishers/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #Elsevier #EricSchares #Frontiers #GoldOpenAccess #JuanPabloAlperin #LeighAnnButler #MadelaineHare #MDPI #MonitoringArticleProcessingCharges #NinaSchnfelder #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PLOS #SpringerNatureAndWiley #StefanieHaustein

On the Fast Track to Full Gold Open Access

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/03/26/on-the-fast-track-to-full-gold-open-access-2/

#GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #RobertKudeli #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #StateOfTheArt

On the Fast Track to Full Gold Open Access

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/02/07/on-the-fast-track-to-full-gold-open-access/

#GoldOpenAccess #OpenAccess #RobertKudeli #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication

I pointed out in 2018 in @TrendsEcolEvo how this raised #ethical problems because with expensive #goldopenaccess there is an alignment of interests between unscrupulous authors and greedy publishers.

Plus, nowadays, all articles are de facto #openaccess thanks to Alexandra Elbakyan or simply thanks to being able to send an #email to the authors.

https://hal.science/hal-01788084/