dc.contributor.author | Khoo, Shaun Yon-Seng | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-13T12:58:31Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | fr |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-13T12:58:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21676 | |
dc.publisher | LIBER | fr |
dc.rights | Ce document est mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Paternité 4.0 International. / This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Open access | fr |
dc.subject | Author choice | fr |
dc.subject | Journal selection | fr |
dc.subject | Article processing charge | fr |
dc.subject | Price sensitivity | fr |
dc.subject | Hyperinflation | fr |
dc.title | Article processing charge hyperinflation and price insensitivity : an open access sequel to the serials crisis | fr |
dc.type | Article | fr |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Université de Montréal. Faculté de médecine. Département de pharmacologie et physiologie | fr |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.18352/lq.10280 | |
dcterms.abstract | Open access publishing has frequently been proposed as a solution to the
serials crisis, which involved unsustainable budgetary pressures on libraries due to hyperinflation of subscription costs. The majority of open access
articles are published in a minority of journals that levy article processing charges (APCs) paid by authors or their institutions upon acceptance.
Increases in APCs are proceeding at a rate three times that which would be
expected if APCs were indexed according to inflation. As increasingly ambitious funder mandates are proposed, such as Plan S, it is important to evaluate whether authors show signs of price sensitivity in journal selection by
avoiding journals that introduce or increase their APCs. Examining journals
that introduced an APC 4–5 years after launch or when flipping from a subscription model to immediate open access model showed no evidence that
APC introduction reduced article volumes. Multilevel modelling of APC
sensitivity across 319 journals published by the four largest APC-funded
dedicated commercial open access publishers (BMC, Frontiers, MDPI, and
Hindawi) revealed that from 2012 to 2018 higher APCs were actually associated with increased article volumes. These findings indicate that APC hyperinflation is not suppressed through market competition and author choice.
Instead, demand for scholarly journal publications may be more similar to
demand for necessities, or even prestige goods, which will support APC
hyperinflation to the detriment of researchers, institutions, and funders. | fr |
dcterms.isPartOf | urn:ISSN:1435-5205 | fr |
dcterms.isPartOf | urn:ISSN:2213-056X | fr |
dcterms.language | eng | fr |
UdeM.ReferenceFournieParDeposant | Khoo, S.Y.-S., (2019). Article processing charge hyperinflation and price insensitivity: An open access sequel to the serials crisis. LIBER Quarterly, 29, 1–18. doi:10.18352/lq.10280 | fr |
UdeM.VersionRioxx | Version publiée / Version of Record | fr |
oaire.citationTitle | LIBER Quarterly | |
oaire.citationVolume | 29 | |
oaire.citationIssue | 1 | |
oaire.citationStartPage | 1 | |
oaire.citationEndPage | 18 | |