Notable APC price increases

This post is for journals and/or publishers with notable price increases from 2014 to 2015.

Journal of Vision: 25% increase in page charge from $100 to $125 USD effective for submissions after Jan. 1, 2015

Libertas Academica: average 18% to 56% price increases from 2014 to 2015 (separate post)

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences Online: price increase from 7,000 PKR in 2014 to 12,000 PKR in 2015, a 70% increase.

Research in Applied Economics: price doubled from $100 to $200 USD.

Research Revolution: 25% increase from 1,000 to 1,250 INR for a single author  (1,500 if co-authors)

Review of Research: 30% increase from 1,000 to 1,300 INR

Scientia Agricola: 16% increase from $60 US to $70 US per page for non-subscribers

Theranostics: 32% increase from 1,250 AUD to 1,650 AUD

This post is part of the open access article processing charges project.

Morrison, H. (2015). Notable APC price increases. Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir Les Savoirs Communs. Retrieved from https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/22/notable-apc-price-increases/

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.