The Price of Gold: Curiosity?

05/02/2019

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by   Daniel W Hook, et al.

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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.