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Jill Cirasella replied to the topic American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 42 minutes ago

Ugh, this is horrific. But part of me always marvels at traditional publishers’ ability to dream up ever more unfriendly terms and payment structures–twists that most of us never saw coming. These publishers have, year after year, been fiendishly good at playing three-dimensional scholcomm chess with authors, readers, libraries, and funders.

Beth Evans started the topic American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 1 day, 4 hours ago

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

ACS is proposing what they call Author Development Charges (ADC’s). These are fees promised to the publisher, prior to peer review, that will allow the author to buy-out the embargo from…[Read more]

Monica Berger replied to the topic AAAS Survey on Open Access Financing Mechanisms in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 days, 5 hours ago

Thanks Michael. I tell classroom faculty to build the APC into their next grant or to use DOAJ to find fee-free or diamond open access journals.

Michael Kahn replied to the topic AAAS Survey on Open Access Financing Mechanisms in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 days, 6 hours ago

Monica, I find this so relevant. Just yesterday I had a professor ask me if CUNY would pay her processing fees! I turned to Jill who really helped me understand APCs.

Monica Berger started the topic AAAS Survey on Open Access Financing Mechanisms in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 5 days, 6 hours ago

“The APC ‘is a model that freezes inequities into place,’ said Sudip Parikh, chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.”

This summary of a October 2022 report from AAAS is a quick read. The report, not shockingly, found that most authors have no source of funding for APCs (open access publishing…[Read more]

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Jill Cirasella started the topic 9/20 Minutes & Looking Ahead in the forum LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable 1 week, 4 days ago

Hello, and welcome to those of you who are new to the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable Commons group!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the productive meeting on Wednesday, and I hope that future meetings will work for those who couldn’t make it. Notes from our meeting are available on Google Docs, but here are a few highlights:

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