Pursuing transparency: How research performing organizations in Germany collect data on publication costs

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/01/15/pursuing-transparency-how-research-performing-organizations-in-germany-collect-data-on-publication-costs/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #DorotheaStrecker #Germany #HeinzPampel #JonasHfting #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication

Comparing companion open access journals to their traditional journal counterparts

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/10/20/comparing-companion-open-access-journals-to-their-traditional-journal-counterparts/

#AlexanderPohlman #ArticleprocessingCharges #AyhamMOdeh #JuliaMCoughlin #LayanAlrahmani #OpenAccess #OpenAccessJournals #OpenAccessPublishing #ScholarlyJournals #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #ShandaHBlackmon #ShawnMPurnell #ZaidMAbdelsattar

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

Our Million-Dollar Journal!

The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publishing a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is now £2356. Converting that to dollars at current rates gives about $3150 per paper.

As of today, 25th August 2025, the Open Journal of Astrophysics has published 359 articles.

Using the dollar cost of an MNRAS APC as a benchmark – many journals charge more – this means that we have now saved the global astrophysics community about $1.1M (for an outlay of around $10K).

Yes, we are still a small journal but the size of that figure should help you understand how much money is being wasted globally on publishing fees that could instead be spent on actual research.

It’s good to see that more and more researchers are seeing the light and switching to Diamond Open Access. Today we published the 124th article in Volume 8 (2025) of the Open Journal of Astrophysics. This means that we have so far in 2025 published more papers than we published in the whole of 2024. At the end of August we will be about two-thirds of the way through the year so I expect we will publish more than 180 articles this year.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in running this journal: the Editors, staff at Maynooth University Library who help us, the host of volunteer referees, and of course our authors. I’m confident that, together, we can change the publishing landscape in astrophysics, and put the power (and money) back in the hands of researchers instead of greedy publishers.

This is a slightly-edited version of a post I made last week for the Open Journal of Astrophysics blog.

#APC #ArticleProcessingCharges #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenJournalOfAstrophysics #TheOpenJournalOfAstrophysics

Inequity, precarity, and disparity: Exploring systemic and institutional barriers in open access publishing

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/07/15/inequity-precarity-and-disparity-exploring-systemic-and-institutional-barriers-in-open-access-publishing/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #Canada #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PhilipsAyeni #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #VincentLarivire

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

Publication en accès ouvert et coûts d’Article Processing Charges (APC) en Argentine

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/06/03/publication-en-acces-ouvert-et-couts-darticle-processing-charges-apc-en-argentine/

#Argentina #ArticleprocessingCharges #FernandaBeigel #FlaviaPrado #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #OsvaldoGallardo #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #SoledadGomez

From Fees to Free: Comparing APC-Based and Diamond Open Access Journals in Engineering

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/04/07/from-fees-to-free-comparing-apc-based-and-diamond-open-access-journals-in-engineering/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #DiamondOpenAccess #GustavoDambiskiGomesDeCarvalho #LusEduardoPilatti #LuisMauricioMartinsDeResende #LuizAlbertoPilatti #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication