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 …

Some open access (OA) publishers charge authors fees to make their articles freely
available online. This paper reviews literature on article processing charges (APCs) that has …

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 …

Open access publishing has frequently been proposed as a solution to the serials crisis,
which involved unsustainable budgetary pressures on libraries due to hyperinflation 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 …

Abstract Current implementations of Open Access (OA) publishing frequently involve article
processing charges (APCs). Increasing evidence has emerged that APCs impede …

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 …

The issue of “predatory” publishing continues to affect many scholars around the world who
publish. When one reads the fairly vast literature surrounding “predatory” publishing, there is …

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 …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important
and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publishing and …