We thank Springer Nature's Christopher Pym for his opinion on the GOAL list
regarding of analysis of BMC price increases from 2018 - 2019:
http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2019-May/005123.html
Errors are always possible with this type of work, and so I conducted a second
analysis,
In response to conversation regarding BMC APC, the following clarification may
be of interest to this group.
The blog post
(https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/04/30/biomed-central-in-2019-sharp-increase-in-article-processing-charge/)
states that for BMC journals "there has been a 57%
