In my opinion, An article-processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee poses an obstacle for Academic Studies. Because the most important making-known activity of your research and its importance, results etc is turning it into a publication and publishing it in a good journal. But if you do not have funding or enough money to cover the APC charge (which is really high sometimes) an article that is already submitted, already accepted can wait even more than 2 years for publication without open access. This should not be like that if scientific works really matter in this world. Additionally, it's really sad to see even publish an article in a good journal turn into a business.
On the other hand, the journal is making an agreement with authors about in case if they share full-version in any academic platform to make it available for other authors they can not publish an article in any other open-access journal for the upcoming 2 years.
I have an article about #femaleimmigrantenterprenurship that got accepted nearly 2 years ago and I and co-authors are still waiting for the publication because it's not open-access due to APC. This is just unfair and damages the scientific works. if you have such an experience too and what you think about it please do not hesitate to raise a voice, it's vital importance.
This question has been discussed several times before without any solution:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_do_journals_request_authors_to_pay_article_publication_charges_before_publication_and_require_authors_to_pay_before_access
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_article_processing_charge_and_why_the_publication_fee_is_charged_to_Author
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Article_Processing_Charge
https://www.researchgate.net/post/A_research_paper_costs_more_to_publish_than_a_Car
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Publishing_open_access_for_1000
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_difference_between_Pay_and_Publish_versus_Free_Publication_in_terms_of_publishing
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_ACTUAL_COST_OF_A_PUBLICATION
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_true_that_only_open_access_journals_charge_publication_fee_while_subscription_journals_do_not_charge
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_impact_of_high_article_processing_charges_on_research_publication_activities_in_low_and_middle_income_countries
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-much-does-someone-pay-to-publish-in-this-journal
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_does_Nature_Open_Access_charge_so_much_to_publish
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_your_opinion_on_the_journals_where_you_pay_a_fee_to_be_able_to_publish_your_paper
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Journal_Publication_fee
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is-it-fair-for-peer-reviewed-international-Journals-to-charge-exorbitant-processing-fees
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Publication_game_and_charges_inflation
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_think_that_the_academic_publishing_industry_exploits_scholars
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Open_Access_Publication_with_huge_amounts_of_Processing_Charge_Where_is_Academia_Leading_to
See also these discussions on funding of APC:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Funders_for_article_publication_charges
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Funding_for_publication
https://www.researchgate.net/post/If_you_need_Fundraising_Help_for_Publication
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-to-get-funding-for-an-open-access-Journal-publication
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-can-I-find-a-funding-body-that-can-pay-the-fees-of-publishing-my-paper-in-an-open-access-journal
https://www.researchgate.net/post/funding_grants_to_publish_our_scholarly_article
Next, perhaps you may check this free lists of grants and fellowships around the world available online:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00599-z
Totally agree with Wolfgang R. Dick
THIS THINGS U CAN FIND IN LINK
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_do_journals_request_authors_to_pay_article_publication_charges_before_publication_and_require_authors_to_pay_before_access
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_article_processing_charge_and_why_the_publication_fee_is_charged_to_Author
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Article_Processing_Charge
https://www.researchgate.net/post/A_research_paper_costs_more_to_publish_than_a_Car
In some countries Higher education authorities have subscriptions for all institutions and there is no need to pay the APC by author. For example in Ireland, I have seen Irish institutions have Gold Access. https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/agreements/ireland
For details you may discuss with Rabeea
Dear colleagues: May I suggest to end this discussion with an eye-opening revelation of Diamond Open Access journals, that charge neither the authors nor the readers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_open_access . Since Diamond OA journals (which are included in Scopus and WoS) available in almost every field of Knowledge, why do you even consider publishing with MDPI or Elsevier ? I stopped reviewing articles for non-Diamond OA journals 5 years ago, I completely stopped publishing in non-Diamond journals this year, and I forced all my co-authors to do the same.
I face the same issue due to that I have to publish my paper in non-reputed journal which makes my work not readable at all. They did not even refined my article before publication. This degrades your performance and article too.
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