1 000 euros a year is the average amount that an author with Article Processing Charges funding will spend on publishing his or her articles. The top quarter have access to 2 000 euros annually or more. 241 academic authors in our sample declared to […]
11.4% of authors from the peripheral countries are ready to treat their own money as a resource that may cover Article Processing Charges, which is true for only 6.1% of those based in the core countries. In the global periphery, academic authors have less access […]
26.8% of academic authors predict that they will have money to cover publication fees in the year 2016. Researchers from the field of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seem to be more pessimistic than their STEM colleagues. Also an army of academic authors who are […]
Authors from the global periphery pay APCs as frequently as their colleagues from the wealthy countries, even tough organizing money is often more problematic for them. I am glad to present our next post with outputs from Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open […]
According to the Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Author’s Survey , the frequency of paying Article Processing Charges decreases with career level, while its average amount increases. The state of the APC market also seems to be completely different among various disciplines. […]
While more than half of open access papers are published under the terms of a liberal Creative Commons Attribution Licence, the majority of authors of open access works seem not to accept the terms of either this or any other Creative Commons license. Despite the […]
Predatory journal – that sounds terrifying, doesn’t it? However, the problem of low quality open access journals is overemphasized. 67.4% of academic authors who answered Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Author’s Survey, know a high quality open access journal dealing with their […]
Conviction that open access helps to promote academic work influences the importance of open access as a factor in choosing a journal to publish work for more than ethical reasons. Do the authors value open access as a factor of choosing a place to publish, […]
Among researchers who answered the Key Challenges of Research Communication 2015 De Gruyter Open Author Survey, 43% declared that they “quite often” have problems with getting access to a book or an article that might be important for their work. 26.5% confessed that it happens […]
Academic authors have, in general, a positive view on open access, but other factors are more important in choosing a place of publication for an academic article. However, it seems that there are numerous groups of researchers around the world who are formally or informally […]