Mx Stuart Lawson S.Lawson@napier.ac.uk
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Fee waivers for open access journals
Lawson, Stuart
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Abstract
Open access journals which charge article processing charges (APCs) sometimes offer fee waivers to authors who cannot afford to pay them. This article measures the extent of this practice among the largest toll access and open access publishers by gathering stated fee waiver policies from publishers’ websites. A majority (68.8%) were found to offer fee waivers and sometimes they are only available to authors from low- and middle-income countries. This has implications for the ability of authors without funding to publish in journals from these publishers.
Citation
Lawson, S. (2015). Fee waivers for open access journals. Publications, 3(3), 155-167. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications3030155
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 23, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 5, 2015 |
Publication Date | Aug 5, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Jun 24, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 24, 2019 |
Journal | Publications |
Electronic ISSN | 2304-6775 |
Publisher | MDPI |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 155-167 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/publications3030155 |
Keywords | Article processing charges, Fee waivers, Open access publishing |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1906328 |
Contract Date | Jun 24, 2019 |
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
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