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Sara Hanson Post 1

• 22 October 2019, 9:17 PM

Costs of Open Access

One barrier that I have encountered in open access publishing are the increased publication costs. Publishing with open access journals (such as PLoS), or paying for the open access option for a journal can be prohibitively expensive for a researcher. The cost difference between those options and publishing behind a paywall can be several thousand dollars. For research groups at smaller institutions that doesn't have substantial external funding, this can be a difficult challenge to overcome. 

Beatrice Gini Post 2 (summarised) in reply to 1

• 23 October 2019, 1:26 PM
I completely agree, Sara, the Article Processing Charge model does not seem...
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James Mwamodenyi Post 3 (summarised) in reply to 2

• 26 October 2019, 2:05 PM
These are very pertinent issues you raised. The issue of maintaining quality...
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Ben Libberton Post 4 (summarised) in reply to 1

• 1 November 2019, 5:54 PM
Agree, this has been an issue for groups that I've worked with in the past.
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