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OA journal processing fees by the page
When I first blogged the Royal Society's new Open Choice policy, I said, "[t]he Royal Society is the first publisher I know to charge a per-page processing fee rather than a per-article fee." But I missed at least one.
The OA journals from Hindawi Publishing charge per-page processing fees. The amounts and even the formulas differ from journal to journal. For example, the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking charges €80/page. The Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology charges €60/page. Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics charges €40/page for the first 16 pages and nothing for any remaining pages. The EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems charges nothing for the first six pages and €100/page for each remaining page. Ahmed Hindawi tells me that the different models will probably converge to just one in the coming year. If there are other OA or hybrid OA journals charging processing fees by the page rather than the article, I'd like to hear about them. Meantime, the CharteringLibrarian wonders why a journal would charge per-page fees rather than per-article fees. Update. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics is another OA journal charging per-page processing fees. (Thanks again to Ahmed Hindawi.) The fees vary depending on which of six editorial services the journal provides for a given paper. |
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