Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
Join the CARL Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice for a presentation and discussion on A Dataset and Bibliometric Approach to Estimating Annual Article Processing Charges for Six Scholarly Publishers.
The author-pays model, in which publishers charge authors an article processing charge (APC) to publish their article open access, is now a well-established and popular revenue source for publishers. Given the prevalence of APCs and emerging models like read-and-publish agreements, reliable data is crucial for informed decision-making by funders, libraries, consortia, and institutions. However, estimating these fees is challenging due to the decentralized nature of scholarly publishing and limited transparency around these fees. This presentation by Leigh-Ann Butler and Eric Schares introduces an open dataset of APCs from six scholarly publishers over five years (2019-2023) and outlines the methodology and findings of a study estimating APC expenditures using this dataset.
Leigh-Ann Butler is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Ottawa, where she supports the library’s open publishing services, the institutional repository, and OA investments. She is a Research Associate at the ScholCommLab, and board member of the Library Publishing Coalition. Prior to uOttawa, she worked as a policy analyst on open science at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Her research focuses on scholarly communication, open scholarship, bibliometrics, and science policy.
Eric Schares is the Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University in the US, and a Research Associate with the ScholCommLab at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He works to analyze publishing trends to support the open access transition in scholarly publishing. His research focuses on bibliometrics, scholarly communication, and open science.
This session will be recorded.
