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An odd paper about India’s gold OA fees
A paper about open-access fees in India published recently in the journal Current Science has repeatedly surfaced in my networks over some problems with it. The paper is entitled ‘Publications in gold open access and article processing charge expenditure: evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged Achal Agrawal, APC discount, APC waiver, article processing charge, Current Science, Elsevier, gold OA, Hindawi, MDPI, Moumita Koley, Open Access, Plan S, Springer-Nature
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Preference for OA research by income group
Two researchers from Rwanda performed a “systematic computational analysis of the biomedical literature” and concluded in their paper that: … papers with authors based in sub-Saharan Africa, papers with authors based in low income countries, and papers resulting from international collaboration are … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged Amelica, article processing charge, arXiv, bronze OA, coalition S, GDP per capita, gold OA, green OA, hybrid OA, income groups, K VijayRaghavan, Latin America, Open Access, Plan S, PLoS ONE, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank
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