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True open-access journals can be split into two categories: diamond or platinum open-access journals, which charge no additional publication, open access or article processing fees; gold open-access journals, which charge publication fees (also called article processing charges, APCs).
A 2013-2018 report (GOA4) found that in 2018 over 700,000 articles were published in gold open access in the world, of which 42% was in journals with no author-paid fees. [77] The figure varies significantly depending on region and kind of publisher: 75% if university-run, over 80% in Latin America, but less than 25% in Western Europe. [77]
The network founded in early 2018 in order to promote free, open access journals, [2] [3] a publishing model that is sometimes called diamond or platinum open access. [4] Such journals are typically smaller than equivalent commercial journals (often supported by academic societies). [5] Main criteria include: adherence to the Fair Open Access ...
The OA Diamond Study finds that the 10,194 journals without publication fees registered on the Directory of Open Access Journals published 356,000 articles (8–9% of all scholarly articles) per year from 2017 to 2019 instead of 453,000 articles (10–11%) published by 3,919 commercial journals with APCs. [15]
Article processing charge. An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors. Most commonly, it is involved in making an academic work available as open access (OA), in either a full OA journal or in a hybrid journal. [1][2][3] This fee may be paid by the author, the author's ...
This model allows PLOS journals to make all articles available to the public for free immediately upon publication. As of April 2021, PLOS One charges a publication fee of $1,745 to publish an article. [33] Depending on circumstances, it may waive or reduce the fee for authors who do not have sufficient funds. [33]
The main academic full-text databases are open archives or link-resolution services, although others operate under different models such as mirroring or hybrid publishers. Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is available.
A hybrid open-access journal is a subscription journal in which some of the articles are open access.This status typically requires the payment of a publication fee (also called an article processing charge or APC) to the publisher in order to publish an article open access, in addition to the continued payment of subscriptions to access all other content.