Faculty Attitudes Towards Article Processing Charges for Open Access Articles

Abstract Article Processing Charges (APCs) are significant charges for publishing Open Access (OA), and have no accepted standards authors to source the funds or negotiate charges. While there is a growing body of literature exploring academic authors’ perceptions OA publishing, little data on how pay APCs. The aim this study was examine prepare fund APCs, as well their these In early 2021 deployed survey Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty members via email. completed by 310 faculty, representing 10.6% active researcher population. Our findings show that about 50% respondents include anticipated APC costs in grant applications, 16% will APCs using personal funds. Questions evaluating perception while majority support concept Access, most believe too high should not fall authors.