‘Left in the Cold: The Failure of APC Waiver Programs to Provide Author Equity’

Article discussing the effectiveness of APC waiver programmes in promoting equity in open access publishing

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ABOUT THE RESOURCE

TYPE:
Article
PUBLISHER:
Council of Science Editors
AUTHOR:
Romy Beard, Publishing Consultant; Curtis Brundy, Associate University Librarian, Iowa State University Library; Sara Rouhi, Director of Strategic Partnerships at PLOS
DATE:
February 2022
DOCUMENT LANGUAGE:
English
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This article, titled ‘Left in the Cold: The Failure of APC Waiver Programs to Provide Author Equity’, examines the effectiveness of Article Processing Charge (APC) waivers in promoting equity in open access publishing.

Three authors tackle the topic from different angles. Romy Beard, Publishing Consultant with Romy Beard Consultancy, and former EIFL Licensing Programme Manager, discusses waivers from the perspective of developing countries, citing research conducted by EIFL (2021); Sara Rouhi, Director of Strategic Partnerships at PLOS, addresses the topic from the perspective of publishers and publishing business models, and Curtis Brundy, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University Library, takes an institutional perspective, focusing on Iowa State University’s open access strategy, which utilizes APC-based and non-APC–based models.