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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’re all familiar with APCs for OA articles. I have encountered a situation I haven’t run into before: some journals are requiring authors to pay a fee to publish non-OA articles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The examples we’ve found so far are all society journals in STEM fields. Some of them are published by one of the major publishers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fesajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fhub%2Fjournal%2F15409309%2Fresources%2Fauthor-guidelines-FEE&data=04%7C01%7CLaurel.Crawford%40unt.edu%7C77ff36ec07274329481e08d8e7cd7ebd%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C0%7C637514217107970326%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=SeZaI2QIEkFt%2BBQ4NgytApQxEFS%2FJwDovvT2PXC4INk%3D&reserved=0" title="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15409309/resources/author-guidelines-FEE">Frontiers
in Ecology and the Environment</a>, Ecology Society of America<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
All publications from ESA - see <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fesajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1002%2Fbes2.1594&data=04%7C01%7CLaurel.Crawford%40unt.edu%7C77ff36ec07274329481e08d8e7cd7ebd%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C0%7C637514217107970326%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=XbMaxt8gjC4nKvKwBSWaF6YRwAss6aGQ6tb%2BoBOQtoA%3D&reserved=0" title="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bes2.1594">
Table 3</a> of this article<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpphys.msubmit.net%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmain.plex%3Fform_type%3Ddisplay_auth_instructions&data=04%7C01%7CLaurel.Crawford%40unt.edu%7C77ff36ec07274329481e08d8e7cd7ebd%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C0%7C637514217107980318%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=FSch%2FFhY4y23IJSv5RHYqh31DYUg0AkUabhjYruoK3E%3D&reserved=0" title="https://pphys.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex?form_type=display_auth_instructions">Plant
Physiology</a>, American Society of Plant Biologists - see section, Fees and Charges. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
ASPB's journal, <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftpc.msubmit.net%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmain.plex%3Fform_type%3Ddisplay_auth_instructions&data=04%7C01%7CLaurel.Crawford%40unt.edu%7C77ff36ec07274329481e08d8e7cd7ebd%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C0%7C637514217107990316%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=uxRg0ActNbeTtrXyvmVbPvx3OelHKRDie34enlQoKjU%3D&reserved=0" title="https://tpc.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex?form_type=display_auth_instructions">
The Plant Cell</a>, also has charges for non-open access. See Policies and Fees.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="xmsonormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">AGU journals <a href="https://www.agu.org/Publish-with-AGU/Publish/Author-Resources/Publication-fees">
https://www.agu.org/Publish-with-AGU/Publish/Author-Resources/Publication-fees</a>
<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">What’s bothering me about this is threefold:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="xmsolistparagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Our authors might be paying these fees and then the library might
<i>also</i> be paying for a subscription. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="xmsolistparagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Large publisher conglomerates do not need “help making these subscriptions affordable” (as one of the above publishers claims). The library is already paying—collectively—a huge amount
of money to provide access to these articles.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">Not all of them seem to be up-front about the fee structure. I spoke to at least one researcher who had passed through the acceptance and copy-edit stages before realizing a large
fee was required for paywalled publication. We believe not disclosing that information on their website or submission guidelines is unethical according to the
<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicationethics.org%2Fresources%2Fguidelines-new%2Fprinciples-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing&data=04%7C01%7CLaurel.Crawford%40unt.edu%7C77ff36ec07274329481e08d8e7cd7ebd%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0%7C0%7C637514217107950341%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=6Vwi9%2FwoGVZelzaocEsAre6KraByPAxm8%2Fk4EzsndY4%3D&reserved=0">
COPE guidelines on transparency</a>. <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Have others encountered this situation? Have you addressed it with the publisher? I am curious about the rationale for this, faculty attitudes toward this type of fee, and what, if anything, you believe libraries can do to advocate for
authors.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A">Laurel Sammonds Crawford, MLIS</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A">Head of Collection Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A">University of North Texas Libraries</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><a href="mailto:laurel.crawford@unt.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">laurel.crawford@unt.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#1F497D"><img border="0" width="246" height="42" style="width:2.5625in;height:.4375in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D71992.5E555810" alt="http://tartan.unt.edu/sites/all/themes/greenlight/images/tartan-a.jpg"></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A"> </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#52524A"><a href="https://ied.unt.edu/pronouns"><span style="color:#0563C1">Pronouns</span></a>: she, her, and hers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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