While APCs (fees for publication costs or fees for open access) vary, some of them are quite high as 1000-2000 CHF. Although some publishers have schemes for waiving APCs for researchers from underdeveloped and developing countries, the amount is still quite high for the authors.
I was wondering about the practices of different institutions and countries:
- What is the current policy of your university/research institute/country on APCs?
- Where do the funds come from for APCs? and,
- Who is eligible for the funds?
As private scholar, I am inclined to say: from the taxpayer.
True! Complete/full waivers help researchers in addition to funding grants.
I work at a university in a 'developed' country. My university does not provide funds specifically for APC and it seems most researchers here just do not use journals with APCs as the APC would then come out of materials or salary budget on projects.
We have a few publishers which our library subscribe to many journals from where we get vouchers for APC. The most known is Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and I have a few times used this and thus selected to publish with RSC rather than the similar journal from Elsevier.
Dear Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak, Stephen I. Ternyik and Henrik Rasmus Andersen thank you for your comments. Vouchers for APC could be very helpful for authors.
Dear Prof. Sengur!
Hereby I searched for resources, that offer the view of Finland, (I am based in this country:
1) Academy of Finland: Open Science – Open Access Publishing and Open Data, available at:
https://www.aka.fi/en/research-funding/apply-for-funding/how-to-apply-for-funding/az-index-of-application-guidelines2/open-science/
2) University of Helsinki: Article/Book Processing Charge: Funding for Publishing, available at: https://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/c.php?g=655755&p=4609002
3) Springer (2020). Finland Read and Publish (Springer Compact) agreement, available at:
https://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/springer-open-choice/springer-compact/agreements-finnish-authors
4) FinELib (2020). Open Access Publishing in Elsevier Journals, available at:
http://finelib.fi/open-access-publishing-in-elsevier-journals/
The support still differ from university to university in Finland. My supervisors at LUT University never ever even mentioned about this topic - I am on my own.....
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szerkely
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