Are high gold open access article processing charges an exploitative or predatory trait?

 

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Egilea: Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A.
Formatua: artículo original
Egoera:Versión publicada
Argitaratze data:2026
Deskribapena:The recent editorial in this journal debates a recurring issue which year-upon year, academics are reflectively responding to, namely whether existing article processing charges (APCs) in the gold open access model—especially in ranked and indexed journals of for-profit publishers—are high or excessive. Ultimately, the research community needs to determine whether such pricing—set by the publishers who negotiate deals with universities, often using tax-payers’ money—is merited, and whether high APCs constitute a form of greed, exploitation, or predatory behavior, or whether this is “normal”.
Herria:Portal de Revistas UCR
Erakundea:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Hizkuntza:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/6040
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rpem/article/view/6040
Gako-hitza:APC
financiamiento
acceso abierto
transparencia
funding
open access
transparency
financiamento
acesso aberto
transparência