Paying for Open Access

To share a better understanding of author’s perspectives on APC payments, Knowledge Exchange has carried out a study among authors of six research organisations in Northern Europe. It was concluded that OA publishing is supported by authors because of the larger exposure and the freedom of reuse of the article. As a result, their discretionary research funds are often used to pay the APCs.  Thus, authors need to be supported in areas such as Financing APCs, Administrative procedures for APCs and Communication about OA publishing.

Both reports are freely available :

• Financial and administrative issues around article publication costs for Open Access
• Paying for Open Access: The Authors perspective