RT Journal Article
T1 Attitudes, willingness, and resources to cover article publishing charges: The influence of age, position, income level country, discipline and open access habits
A1 Segado Boj, Francisco José
A1 Prieto Gutiérrez, Juan José
A1 Martín Quevedo, Juan
AB The rise of open access (OA) publishing has been followed by the expansion of the Article Publishing Charges (APC) that moves the financial burden of scholarly journal publishing from libraries and readers to authors. We introduce the results of an international randomly selected sampled survey (N = 3,422) that explores attitudes towards this pay to-publish or Gold OA model among scholars. We test the predictor role of age, professional position, discipline, and income-level country in this regard. We found that APCs are perceived more as a global threat to Science than a deterrent to personal professional careers. Academics in low and lower-middle income level countries hold the most unfavourable opinions about the APC system. The less  experimental disciplines held more negative perceptions of APC compared to STEM and the Life Sciences. Age and access to external funding stood as negative predictors of refusal to pay to publish. Commitment to OA self-archiving predicted the negative global perception of the APC. We conclude that access to external research funds influences the acceptance and the particular perception of the pay to publish model, remarking the economic dimension of the problem and warning about issues in the inequality between centre and periphery.
PB Wiley
SN 0953-1513
YR 2022
FD 2022-05-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71443
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71443
LA eng
NO CRUE-CSIC (Acuerdos Transformativos 2022)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025