The Price of Gold: Curiosity?

Daniel W. Hook; Mark Hahnel; Christian Herzog

The Price of Gold: Curiosity?

Digital Libraries 2019-05-03 v1

Authors: Daniel W. Hook , Mark Hahnel , Christian Herzog

Abstract

Gold open access as characterised by the payment of an article processing charge (APC) has become one of the dominant models in open access publication. This paper examines an extreme hypothetical case in which the APC model is the only model and the systematic issues that could develop in such a scenario.

Keywords

gold open access article processing charge open access publication APC model systematic issues

Cite

@article{arxiv.1905.00880,
  title  = {The Price of Gold: Curiosity?},
  author = {Daniel W. Hook and Mark Hahnel and Christian Herzog},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00880},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures

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