Re: [GOAL] Frontiers and BioMedCentral APC prices 2019

[Christopher Pym]

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% increase in average article 
processing charge comparing to the last year, as the average processing fee was 
$1402 in 2018 and now it is $2200".  It appears that the figure quoted for 2018 
is actually the average of values in the column "2018 APC publisher website 
original currency", which contains a mixture of GBP and EUR pricing, rather 
than USD.  Over 60% of our open access journals have the same or lower euro APC 
in 2019 than they had in 2018.

Chris

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[GOAL] Frontiers and BioMedCentral APC prices 2019

[Heather Morrison]

Two recent posts that might be of interest (thanks to Hamid Pashaei):


BioMedCentral in 2019: sharp increase in article processing charge


Abstract:

Our recent analysis of BioMed Central publishing company journals reveals a 
sharp increase both in number of open access journals and also article 
processing fees.

BMC currently publishes 330 open access journals that comparing to 2018 data 
shows an increase of 11% in number of journals. While 25 journals have no 
article processing fee for authors to publish their articles, there has been a 
57% increase in average article processing charge comparing to the last year, 
as the average processing fee was $1402 in 2018 and now it is $2200.

Comparing to the last year, 264 journals have increased and 5 journals have 
decreased in APC (article processing charge). The average APC increase for 
journals is $917 and the average decrease is $124.

Details:
https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/04/30/biomed-central-in-2019-sharp-increase-in-article-processing-charge/

Frontiers

Abstract:


The data for 2019 shows that while most 2019 journals by Frontiers incurred no 
changes in article processing charge comparing to 2018, but the increase in APC 
of 23 journals (40% of Frontier journals) is significant, with APC increases of 
18% – 31%.

Frontiers currently publishes 62 journals that shows 10% growth in the number 
of journals comparing to 56 journals in 2018. Of these, 23 journals (40%) have 
an increase of $774 in article processing charges but the other journals have 
no change in comparison to 2018 data. Therefore, the overall increase in 
Article processing journals for all Frontiers open access journals is 3 percent.

Details:

https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/04/30/frontiers-in-2019-3-increase-in-average-apc/



Dr. Heather Morrison

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa

Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa

Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight 
Project

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heather.morri...@uottawa.ca

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