‘The Impact of Inflation on APC Costs’

Delta Think’s Dan Pollock and Heather Staines, with data on APC prices and inflation: Overall, OA prices are increasing below inflation. The data suggest that authors continue to get (modestly) increasing value for money for their OA fees. APCS, of course, have never...

‘Classifying open access business models’

I missed this excellent 2024 UKSG Insights piece, by Tasha Mellins-Cohen. In a studiously neutral, mapping-the-landscape fashion, Mellins-Cohen classifies the torrent of OA models into five core types. From the abstract (with the types in bold): The proliferation of...