[IRTalk] bjoern.brembs.blog » How gold open access may make things worse

[Hilton Gibson]

What would be worse? Universal gold open access – that is, every publisher
charges the authors what they want for making the articles publicly
accessible. Take the case of Emerald, a publisher which recently raised
their article processing charges (APCs) by a whopping 70%. When asked for
the reason for their price-hike, they essentially answered “because we can“
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http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/04/how-gold-open-access-may-make-things-worse/
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