STM publisher EDP Sciences has announced the launch of Liberty APCs – a new model where the author chooses their own fair price to publish an article in Open Access (OA).
The Liberty APCs model means that authors can choose from a number of options, the level of article processing charge (APC) they will pay to publish their article - including an amount of 0€ in 2016. It is expected that they will investigate all options for funding, for example from their funding body, their institution or their organisation, but ultimately it will be their decision how much they feel is a fair price to pay.
Liberty APCs is a useful model for journals at launch stage and for the first years of publication. It provides a useful gauge of a journal's value before it is indexed, as all authors who have a requirement to publishing Open Access can publish in a journal relevant to their research regardless of access to funding.
As well as fully open access journals, EDP Open provides free and open access to more than 80,000 scientific articles from across all EDP Sciences' journals and also hundreds of conference proceedings.
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