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Archives: article processing charges

Transitional Agreements Aren’t Working: What Comes Next?

Transitional agreements are proving to be neither transitional nor transformative. How should libraries and publishers reassess and chart a different course?

  • By Alison Mudditt
  • Apr 4, 2024
  • 27 Comments

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

The American Chemical Society is offering a new approach to funding open-access articles; Rick Anderson interviews Sarah Tegen about it.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Oct 2, 2023
  • 23 Comments

Subscribe To Open: Annual Reviews’ Take on Open Access

Subscribe To Open: Explore how Annual Reviews plans to leverage subscription payments for gated access journals to convert and sustain the journals as Open Access.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Apr 2, 2019
  • 22 Comments

PeerJ Waives APCs and Pivots Again

Why would a for-profit, VC funded publisher celebrate by committing itself to a full year’s worth of additional expenses with no additional revenue?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 9, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Cabell’s New Predatory Journal Blacklist: A Review

Cabell’s International has stepped into the gap left by the demise of Beall’s List, providing a new predatory journal blacklist that promises to perform the function of identifying and calling out scam publishers more consistently and transparently. How is it doing so far?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 25, 2017
  • 60 Comments

APCs and Competition: What Shulenberger Got Wrong

Would a systemwide “flip” to open access by means of universal article-processing charges work? David Shulenberger argues that it would not, and he may be right — but not for the reasons he gives.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Oct 3, 2016
  • 39 Comments

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