<div dir="ltr">It is true that distributing publication services locally would diminish the risk of currency fluctuations affecting APC stability, but it does not necessarily reduce costs for authors. I am sure, for example, that most authors would be happier to pay APCs that varied +/- 25% around $1350 than they would a fixed $2000. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Heather Morrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" target="_blank">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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In this post Jihane Salhab & I explain the impact of currency variations and fluctuations on the APC model. PLOS ONE has been a good model for the past few years in at least one respect: maintaining the APC of $1,350 USD with no price increase over several
years. However, if you happen to be paying in Euros, the PLOS ONE APC rose 14% from March to December of 2014, or 23% from March 20, 2014 to March 20, 2015. In South Africa, the price increased 58% in the same 3-year period; in Brazil, the price increase was
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<div>For details and to view a table illustrating the PLOS ONE pricing in 8 currencies:</div>
<div><a href="http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/13/how-a-flat-apc-with-no-price-increase-for-3-years-can-be-a-6-77-price-increase/" target="_blank">http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/13/how-a-flat-apc-with-no-price-increase-for-3-years-can-be-a-6-77-price-increase/</a></div>
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<div>Any scholarly publishing system that involves cross-border payments, whether demand side (subscriptions / payments) or supply side (APC, journal hosting or other production services) has this disadvantage of pricing variability almost everywhere. In this
case, US payers benefit from the flat fee, but anytime an APC is paid for a US scholar publishing in an international venue the same pricing variations based on currency will apply. In contrast, any scholarly publishing system that involves local payments
(e.g. hosting of local journals, paying local copyeditors and proofreaders) has the advantage of relative pricing stability that comes with paying in the local currency.</div>
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<div>Also on Sustaining the Knowledge Commons today: does the market economy really work for social reality? Reflections on an interview with David Simon by Alexis Calvé-Genest.</div>
<div><a href="http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/13/market-economy-and-social-reality-a-pragmatic-view-from-a-well-known-author/" target="_blank">http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/13/market-economy-and-social-reality-a-pragmatic-view-from-a-well-known-author/</a></div>
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Dr. Heather Morrison<br>
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École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies<br>
University of Ottawa</div>
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