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Geographic differences in the uptake of diamond open access and APCs.

2025 Isabel Basson / Marc-André Simard / Vincent Larivière APCs / Bibliometrics / Libre Accès / Science Policy

This content is not available in the selected language. Geographical and income level analyses have shown that gold OA journals tend to be much more expensive in the Western world and in richer countries compared to other regions where APCs are generally much cheaper and skewed by a minority of expensive journals (Figure 4). Despite […] Read more