Fee waivers for open access journals

Stuart Lawson

doi:10.3390/publications3030155

Fee waivers for open access journals

Stuart Lawson

University of St Andrews

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	155-167
Number of pages	13
Journal	Publications
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/publications3030155
Publication status	Published - 5 Aug 2015

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Article processing charges
Fee waivers
Open access publishing

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