Fee waivers for open access journals

Lawson, Stuart

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
• 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