I am happy to share the news that IGI Global Scientific Publishing and Elsevier's ScienceDirect are partnering together to make IGI Global Scientific Publishing's open access articles readily available to libraries and millions of researchers worldwide.
Can you tell us more about the nature of IGI Global’s relationship with Elsevier now? Does Elsevier have any ownership in the company, or in the journals, or is it merely providing a publishing platform? If the latter, is Elsevier providing the platform as a paid service?
Yesterday we announced that the draft of NISO's Open Access Business Processes Recommended Practice is open for public comment. The full press release <https://www.niso.org/press-releases/nisos-draft-recommended-practice-open-access-business-processes-now-open-public> is available on our website.
All stakeholders are welcome to review the draft and share feedback using the public comment form. See the working group committee page <https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/oabp> to access the draft, leave comments, or view comments that have been made to date.
The APC data are available here, if anyone wants to dig further: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/3XDMNF
On Wed, 3 Sept 2025 at 11:36, Bob Henkel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> These data are very interesting. Thank you for doing this analysis. > > > > I believe it would be very interesting to see how this would all play out > if you only analyzed society publishers and their APCs. > > > > > > Bob Henkel > > Senior Director of Publications > > American Society of Nephrology > > 1401 H Street NW #900 > > Washington, DC 20005 > > p.
These data are very interesting. Thank you for doing this analysis.
I believe it would be very interesting to see how this would all play out if you only analyzed society publishers and their APCs.
Bob Henkel Senior Director of Publications American Society of Nephrology 1401 H Street NW #900 Washington, DC 20005 p. 202-557-8360 www.asnjournals.org
From: OpenCafe-l <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Juan Pablo Alperin Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 1:45 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [OPENCAFE-L] Reasonable costs project update webinar
On a related topic, we did an analysis of how the proposed NIH caps on APCs maps on to the NIH-funded papers published in the first half of this year. Read our blog post: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence <https://www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/nih-apc-caps/>
*Our conclusion: * Although our analysis cannot determine whether publishers’ fees are “reasonable,” it makes one conclusion unmistakably clear: there is a significant gap between what the NIH is proposing as reasonable caps and the substantially higher charges imposed by publishers of journals where NIH-funded authors most frequently publish. This gap is likely even greater than
