Academic publisher De Gruyter is introducing a new pricing model that prevents 'double dipping' with open access publications. Double dipping is when publishers are paid twice for articles in hybrid journals, on the one hand through charging for the open access publication itself and, on the other hand, through the journal subscription price.
If 5 % or more of the articles published in one of De Gruyter's subscription journals are open access articles, the subscription price for the journal will be proportionally reduced.
As part of consortium agreements, De Gruyter also offers to offset APCs (article processing charges) from the subscription price. Both reductions apply to the following year in accordance with the number of issues and required expenditure for the previous volume.
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