Sentence examples for author fees from inspiring English sources

It is now common for research councils to allow grant money to be used to pay these so-called author fees.

For revenue, they rely on author fees of up to $1,500 per article (typically drawn from research monies), voluntary university memberships, and grants.

For scientists in developing countries to benefit, it is also important to ensure the author fees required by open access journals do not become an impediment.

"Predatory and low-quality journals are granting the imprimatur of science to basically any idea for which the author is willing to write an article and pay the author fees," Beall said last year, in an interview with the Scholarly Kitchen blog.

In such situations, as Susan Murray from African Journals Online told a meeting held in June by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, there is a danger that developing country researchers might desert local journals unable to afford to go open access while waiving author fees.

F1000Research charges author fees of $150 $1000 per paper depending on length.

Unlike journals produced by commercial publishers, which rely on subscription revenue, those published by learned societies traditionally operate on a "page charge" or "author fee" principle.

Finding an additional £1,500 $2,3733) on top of a research grant – the figure widely quoted as the standard author fee – may not be much for a well-funded researcher in the developed world.

The author fee will be charged only if the paper is accepted for publication.

And if the large institutions that fund research agree to cover the author fee regardless of the cost, there is another problem, he says.

But the published paper does not disclose that it has given some of the co-authors fees of around £750 each.