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More transparency is required for article processing charges
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In this column, I argue for more transparency for APC (Article Processing Charges) payments, proposing that publishers supply this information on the article itself, as well as making it available in the metadata. In the same way that funders insist that any research articles arising from the research they fund is OA (Open Access), I propose that research funders should also make it a condition on publishers to be more open and transparent about the APC revenue that they receive for a given article.
Keywords:
APC transparency
Open Access
research funding
publisher accountability
article metadata
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