Can researchers and LMICs liaise with more publishers to waiver APCs for researchers from LMICs? Can there be constant funders to support publication fees for researchers from LMIC (just like the WHO-pioneered HINARI for access to journals)?
Furthermore, in the beginning of 2010, the project launched an initiative to pay for publication fees of articles co-authored by European and Latin American researchers in public health and related disciplines.
Publication fees, if applicable, are separate from reproduction fees.
There are no publication fees unless authors can use open access publication grants.
PLoS ONE submission of their work with publication fees covered by Stanford Medicine X.
PLoS relies partly on donations, but also charges publication fees of up to $2,900 per paper.
When handing over publication fees, universities will need to develop some ability to assess the journal as well.
The Wellcome Trust announced plans to require CC-BY when it pays publication fees, but hasn't yet made the transition.
In 2007, we found 75 society OA journals charging publication fees (17%), and in 2011 we found 141 (22%).
This fluidity may raise concerns among academics that publication fees could be uncoupled from the cost of production, diverting unreasonable sums of money from researchers to publishers.
Peer-reviewed open-access journals, like Nature Communications and PLoS One, charge their authors publication fees — $5,000 and $1,350, respectively — to defray their more modest expenses.
