An Article Processing Charge (APC) is a one-off payment to cover the costs of publishing and publishing services in gold or hybrid Open Access journals. Some gold open access journals do not levy a fee directly on authors, but instead publishing costs are sourced through other means, which is sometimes called platinum or diamond open access.
The APC is paid by either the author, the funder, the institution or the employer. The fee is payable when your manuscript is accepted, but before it is published. APC fees vary by journal, and funding may be available. The average cost of an APC is approx. €2,000 per paper.
Paying this fee means that your research is open access and available to anyone with an internet connection. Open access publishing has a variety of benefits including increasing impact and visibility.
Note: A hybrid OA journal will have an optional OA article processing charge for individual articles.
TU Dublin wholeheartedly supports researchers sharing their work through open access. Our institutional repository Arrow supports green open access publishing. Arrow has almost 10,000,000 full text downloads with 1,514,744 in the last year.
In addition, we have negotiated deals with publishers and consortiums. Our Open Access policy can be found here.
IReL
IReL is the Irish Research eLibrary, a nationally funded online research library providing access to leading Science Technology and Medicine (STM) and Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) resources to participating institutions. IRel also negotiates transformative agreements with publishers, which typically allow corresponding authors from eligible institutions to publish their articles open access immediately on publication. A list of the agreements negotiated to date is here. Of particular significance are the recent agreements negotiated with ScienceDirect and ACM.
ScienceDirect gives continued read-access to the Elsevier’s Freedom Collection of journals and allows corresponding authors from member institutions to publish articles as open access in over two thousand Elsevier journals without publication charges. The agreement will allow an estimated 71% of articles by eligible authors in the relevant Elsevier journals to be open access immediately on publication for each year of the agreement.
Under the new agreement, which runs for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2020, participating universities will receive unlimited and unrestricted access to all articles in the ACM Digital Library during the term and all publications from corresponding authors from these institutions published during the term in ACM journals, conference proceedings and magazines will be made Open Access at the time of publication at no cost to the authors. Additionally, ACM will make deposits into institutional repositories for all co-authors from these universities. The new agreement also expands the range of rights authors retain when publishing with ACM.
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