<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">Dear Heather</span><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Thank you for your analysis in your blog post on DOAJ APC data. A few remarks and updates:</div><div style="font-size:13px">Since our reapplication project, inclusion of APC values is mandatory for a journal to be indexed in DOAJ.</div><div style="font-size:13px">We list the highest APC that is charged for a journal having several different APCs for authors from different countries, different article types etc. This means that we may not list the local currency for a journal if the local APC rate is lower than the rate for authors from other countries. In cases where there is a APC per journal page we calculate a price for an article of average length. There are also a few instances where the author has a free choice on how much to pay as APC, but our database does not cover these. We do not think that there are very many other complex systems for APCs in the journals that we index.</div><div style="font-size:13px">Regarding the reliability of the APC data, I can tell you that, within the next few weeks, we will start implementing a system that requires and enables publishers to inform us of changes in the information that they provided to DOAJ when their journals were listed. This will ensure that we will never again have to go through the process of evaluating reapplications for all the journals we list in DOAJ.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr. Tom Olijhoek<div>Editor-in-Chief <span style="font-size:12.8px">DOAJ </span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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