The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of 'Open
Science'or 'Open Research'has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated …

Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of
the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large scale, broad …

Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide
during the past two decades. So far, this transition is increasingly based on article …

We aim to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish
open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers (Elsevier …

As open‐access (OA) publishing funded by article‐processing charges (APCs) becomes
more widely accepted, academic institutions need to be aware of the “total cost of …

Large publishing companies have been dominating scientific publishing for long, which
leads to high subscription fees and inhibited access to scientific knowledge. At digital era …

This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), ie articles published
openly on the web within subscription-access journals. Included in the study are the five …

The subscription prices of peer-reviewed journals have in the past not been closely related
to the scientific quality. This relationship has been further obscured by bundled e-licenses …

Abstract Hybrid Open Access is an intermediate form of OA, where authors pay scholarly
publishers to make articles freely accessible within journals, in which reading the content …

While the business models used in most segments of the media industry have been
profoundly changed by the Internet, surprisingly little has changed in the publishing of …