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<p>Following is a summary of recent APC changes for 4 publishers, prepared on request but posted in case this might be of interest to anyone else. In brief, each publisher appears to be following a different pricing strategy ranging from flat pricing over many
years with one rare exception, to a tenfold increase from 2016 – 2017.</p>
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<p><b>BioMedCentral</b>: mixed picture</p>
<p>• 269 journals with numeric data 2017 and 2018 (April 4 sampling date both years)<br>
• 20 with price increases of 2% – 83% (30 – 620 GBP)<br>
• 5 with price decreases of 1% – 15% (15 – 205 GBP)<br>
• Of interest: 25 journals with no publication fee (appears to be society / university sponsorship)<br>
• Of concern: 44 journals with “title not found”: some will reflect earlier title drop</p>
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<p><b>Hindawi </b>April 2016 – November 2017: mixed picture, price increases a bit concerning</p>
<p>• 281 journals with numeric data for 2016 and 2017 (including 0 = free for now*)<br>
• 99 journals have price increases ranging from 14 – 108% (100% = price has doubled), increases of 250 – 650 USD<br>
• 115 journals have no change in pricing<br>
• 45 journals have price decreases of 6 – 25%, 50 – 100 USD<br>
• Of interest: 230 Predecessor journals (ISRN series): good practice<br>
• Of concern: 186 title not found (not limited to 2017), excluding predecessor </p>
<p>*Rotating free journals: 5 of the 281 journals were free in 2016; 1 is still free, the other 4 have APCs of 1250 – 1750 USD. 17 journals that had an APC in 2016 were free in 2017. Paul Peters sent an e-mail explaining this strategy a few years ago.</p>
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<p><b>PLOS ONE</b>: flat pricing with one exception<br>
>From 2014 – 2018, there has been only one price change for PLOS journals: PLOS ONE was $1,350 USD in 2014 and is $1,495 USD today. The sample date was December 2017, a visual scan confirms the same prices are in effect as of April 13, 2018.
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<p><b>PeerJ</b>: tenfold price increase from 2016 – 2017 (99 USD – 1,095 USD); new journal PeerJ Computer Science is 895 USD.</p>
<p>See also yesterday’s post <br>
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<p><a href="https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/04/12/frontiers-40-journals-have-apc-increases-of-18-31-from-2017-to-2018/" target="_blank">Frontiers: 40% of journals have price increases from 18 – 31%</a>.
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<p>Blog post link (text is the same): <br>
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<p><a href="https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/04/13/recent-apc-price-changes-for-4-publishers-bmc-hindawi-plos-peerj/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk661293" previewremoved="true">https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/04/13/recent-apc-price-changes-for-4-publishers-bmc-hindawi-plos-peerj/</a><br>
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<p>best,<br>
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<p>Heather Morrison</p>
<p>Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa</p>
<p>Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa<br>
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<p>Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</p>
<p>https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org<br>
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