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True open-access journals can be split into two categories: diamond or platinum open-access journals , which charge no additional publication, open access or article processing fees gold open-access journals , which charge publication fees (also called article processing charges , APCs).
Article processing fees for journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (2019). Journals use a variety of ways to generate the income required to cover publishing costs (including editorial costs, any costs of administering the peer review system), such as subsidies from institutions [7] and subscriptions.
No-fee open access journals, ... but approximately 10,000 journals without APC are ... sample of all articles published in 2011 as indexed by Scopus were freely ...
The OA Diamond Study finds that the 10,194 journals without publication fees registered on the Directory of Open Access Journals published 356,000 articles (8–9% of all scholarly articles) per year from 2017 to 2019 instead of 453,000 articles (10–11%) published by 3,919 commercial journals with APCs. [15]
At the end of the process (December 2017), close to 5,000 journals, out of the 11,600 indexed in May 2016, had been removed from their database, in majority for failure to reapply. [4] [5] [6] Notwithstanding the substantial cleanup, the number of journals included in DOAJ has continued to grow, to reach 14,299 as of 3 March 2020. [7]
Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. [1] An ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is considered to significantly benefit their users in terms of continuous improvent in coverage, search/analysis capabilities, but not in price.
Sage Open is an open access, peer-reviewed, academic mega journal. [1] It is the "first broad spectrum open access title aimed specifically at the behavioral and social sciences communities". [2] It was established in May 2011 [3] and is published by SAGE Publications.
AIP Advances is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific mega journal published by the American Institute of Physics. It was established in March 2011. It was established in March 2011. It covers all aspects of physics , both experimental and theoretical .