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From: LIBLICENSE
Date: Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 7:35 AM
Subject: In France, the total cost of article processing charges has
tripled between 2013 and 2020
To:
In France, the total cost of article processing charges has tripled between
2013 and 2020. It is likely to double in the next decade.
Hello,
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and the French Open
Science Committee, have funded a research about the cost of APC at national
level. Now we have a national estimation of the total cost for article
processing charges, 30M€ / year. The cost has tripled in ten years. The
cost will probably double again in the next decade.
The report is there :
https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/retrospective-and-prospective-study-of-the-ev...
You will find, enclosed, a poster summarizing the results.
Best regards
Marin Dacos
https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/how-much-do-apcs-cost-french-research-institu...
How much do APCs cost French research institutions?
2–3 minutes
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*The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study
that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges for
French research institutions since 2013 and predicts their evolution by
2030.*
The *Retrospective and prospective study of the evolution of APC costs and
electronic subscriptions for French institutions*
https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/retrospective-and-prospective-study-of-the-ev...
quantifies the costs generated by the open access publishing model based on
authors paying article processing charges (APC).
The study relies on an innovative methodology and on a dataset including
more than one million articles published by researchers affiliated to
French institutions between 2013 and 2020. In its retrospective part, it
establishes that the total costs of APC have tripled over this period,
reaching €31 million in 2020. At that time, a quarter of the articles by
French-based researchers gave rise to the payment of APCs.
In its prospective version, the study estimates that the total cost of APCs
would be 50 M€ in 2030 if the current trend continues and could reach 68 M€
in an alternative scenario of acceleration.
For French research institutions, the costs generated by the publication of
their researchers’ work in journals with APCs comes in addition to the
costs of electronic subscriptions. Estimated at 87,5 M€ in 2020, this
expenditure could reach 97,5 M€ in 2030.
The study, carried out jointly by Datactivis https://datactivist.coop/en/t
and Pleiade Management and Consultancy https://pleiade.nl/en/, was
monitored by a steering committee comprising the French Ministry of Higher
Education and Research, Couperin (Unified Consortium of Higher Education
and Research Organizations for Access to Digital Publications) and the
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). A poster
https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/APC_Cost_Study_Pos...
presents the main results of the study.
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French Coordinator for Open Science
To the Director-General for Research and Innovation and Director General
for Higher Education and Professional Integration
Ministry of Higher Education and Research – France
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1, rue Descartes – 75231 Paris cedex 05
(33) 6 88 89 52 85
(33) 1 55 55 81 87
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