It is true that distributing publication services locally would diminish the risk of currency fluctuations affecting APC stability, but it does not necessarily reduce costs for authors. I am sure, for example, that most authors would be happier to pay APCs that varied +/- 25% around $1350 than they would a fixed $2000.
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Heather Morrison < heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote: > In this post Jihane Salhab & I explain the impact of currency variations > and fluctuations on the APC model. PLOS ONE has been a good model for the > past few years in at least one respect: maintaining the APC of $1,350 USD > with no price increase over several years. However, if you happen to be > paying in Euros, the PLOS ONE APC rose 14% from March to December of 2014, > or 23% from March 20, 2014 to March 20, 2015. In South Africa, the price > increased 58% in the same 3-year period; in Brazil, the price increase was > 77%. > > For details and to view a table illustrating the PLOS ONE pricing in 8 > currencies: > > http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/13/how-a-flat-apc-with-no-price-increase-for-3-years-can-be-a-6-77-price-increase/ > > Any scholarly publishing system that involves cross-border payments, > whether demand side (subscriptions / payments) or supply side (APC, journal > hosting or other production services) has this disadvantage of pricing > variability almost everywhere. In this case, US payers benefit from the > flat fee, but anytime an APC is paid for a US scholar publishing in an > international venue the same pricing variations based on currency will > apply. In contrast, any scholarly publishing system that involves local > payments (e.g. hosting of local journals, paying local copyeditors and > proofreaders) has the advantage of relative pricing stability that comes > with paying in the local currency. > > Also on Sustaining the Knowledge Commons today: does the market economy > really work for social reality? Reflections on an interview with David > Simon by Alexis Calvé-Genest. > > http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/13/market-economy-and-social-reality-a-pragmatic-view-from-a-well-known-author/ > > best, > > -- > Dr. Heather Morrison > Assistant Professor > École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies > University of Ottawa > Desmarais 111-02 > 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 > Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship > http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ > http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html > heather.morri...@uottawa.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > -- Michael Eisen, Ph.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley
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