13 août 2020
Pablo Markin, « Market Forces in the Open Access Market and the Commodity Status of Scholarly Articles », Open Access Blog, ID : 10670/1.673jq9
While some scholars argue that researchers and scientists, as authors of scholarly articles, act as consumers in the market of article processing charges (APCs) that characterize the Open Access publishing sector, with regard to the supply and demand forces that apply to scientific outputs as commodities the picture can be more complicated. On the one hand, Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo, in his relatively recent article on the APCs published in 2019, has noted that scholarly journals flipping to O...