Similar to what we found last year, there were a number of journals that indicated “has charges” in DOAJ as of May 2015 where we have not been able to confirm that the journal actually has any kind of publication fee. In some cases, there is language clearly indicating that there are no fees. Of the sub-sample of 139 journals published by publishers with 9 or fewer journals using APCs (as of May 2014, we are updating based on this sample to look for trends), for 25 journals (18% of the sample) we either could not identify any charges, or we were able to verify that the journal actually does not charge. The “cost not found” category is separate from the “not specified” category where language on the journal website suggests that there are charges but the amounts are not given. One theory I have that might account for some of the discrepancy is the possibility of misinterpretation of author guidelines details for non-english-language journals. Many journals have a lot of numeric information in their author guidelines (number of words, pages, margin and text sizes). It would be easy for a non-native speaker casually suggesting a journal to DOAJ to assume that some of the numbers referred to APCs.
Here are the details:
| no publication fees | Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine | http://www.mjssm.me |
| no cost found | Conflict & Communication Online | http://www.cco.regener-online.de/ |
| no cost found | Entomotropica | http://www.entomotropica.org/ |
| no cost found | International Journals of Research Papers (title change 2015) | http://gssrr.org/index.php?journal=JournalOfBasicAndAppliedi&page=index |
| no cost found | Journal of Nippon Medical School | http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jnms/-char/en |
| no cost found | Magister Dixit | http://md.islu.ru/ |
| no cost found | Métis : História e Cultura | http://www.ucs.br/etc/revistas/index.php/metis/index |
| no cost found | Modern Journal of Applied Linguistics | http://www.mjal.org |
| no cost found | Pixel-Bit | http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=368 |
| no cost found | Revista de la Sociedad Química de México | http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=475 |
| no cost found | Revista Lusófona de Educação | http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/rleducacao |
| no cost found | Cuadernos Geográficos | http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=171 |
| no cost found | Matemáticas : Enseñanza Universitaria | http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=468 |
| no cost found | Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas (RIPS) | http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=380 |
| no cost found | Bulletin of Materials Science | http://www.ias.ac.in/matersci/ |
| no cost found | Journal of Genetics | http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/ |
| no cost found | Revista Brasileira de Administração Científica | http://www.arvore.org.br/seer/index.php/rbadm |
| no cost found | Academia Journal of Agricultural Research | http://academiapublishing.org/ajar/index.htm |
| no cost found | Academia Journal of Educational Research | http://academiapublishing.org/ajer/index.htm |
| no cost found | Contaduría y Administración | http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=395 |
| no cost found | Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences : Zoology | http://zoology.eajbs.eg.net/ |
| no cost found | Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales | http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=421 |
| no APC, subsidized | Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at : Das Fachmedium für Forschung, Praxis und Diskurs | http://www.erwachsenenbildung.at/magazin |
| cost not found | Revista CROMA | http://www.croma.fba.ul.pt/i_en.htm |
| cost not found | Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences : Toxicology and Pest Control | http://toxicology.eajbs.eg.net/ |
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