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Written by Ben Harris-Roxas on 2024-08-22 at 22:22

Over the last five years the average open access article processing charge has gone up by 26% to AUD $4,945.

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/mejor-negocio-mundo-editoriales-cientificas-disparan-precios-multiplican-facturacion_1_11532874.html

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Written by Ben Harris-Roxas on 2024-08-22 at 22:32

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Written by Mike Taylor 🦕 on 2024-08-23 at 16:39

@ben_hr @Andbaker PLOS is the really outrageous one here.

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Written by Juan Pablo Alperin on 2024-08-23 at 17:42

@mike @ben_hr @Andbaker only when you consider the average price at the journal level. When you look at the APCs paid, you see that the vast majority of PLOS APCs are to PLOS ONE, still among the lowest.

From our preprint (which uses our dataset quoted in the story): https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Written by Mike Taylor 🦕 on 2024-08-23 at 18:43

@juancommander @ben_hr @Andbaker … which is nice, but doesn't change the fact that PLOS APC prices have risen faster than those of any other publisher.

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Written by Juan Pablo Alperin on 2024-08-23 at 18:46

@mike @ben_hr @Andbaker yes, but not for PLOS ONE, is my point. Still, I agree, I don't love their APC structure for their "selective" journals, which is where those increases come from.

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Written by Mike Taylor 🦕 on 2024-08-23 at 18:48

@juancommander @ben_hr @Andbaker The thing really is that I expected so much better of PLOS. It feels like one more "non-profit" that's completely lost its way.

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Written by Juan Pablo Alperin on 2024-08-23 at 19:13

@mike @ben_hr @Andbaker My sense is that they had, but that they are making their way back around by exploring APC alternatives, but I really haven't been scrutinizing enough to make that assertion—it's just the sense I have

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Written by Mike Taylor 🦕 on 2024-08-23 at 19:28

@juancommander @ben_hr @Andbaker I hope you're right.

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