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Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:14 AM

Announcement

De Gruyter presents new open access pricing model to prevent “double dipping”

Berlin, 8 October 2015

De Gruyter is introducing a new pricing model that prevents “double
dipping” with open access publications. Double dipping is when
publishers are paid twice for articles in hybrid journals, on the one
hand through charging for the open access publication itself and, on
the other hand, through the journal subscription price.

Jacek Ciesielski, Vice President Open Access at De Gruyter, says:
“Double dipping was a weak point in the publication process for open
access. The price reductions that we are introducing at De Gruyter
from 2016 will enable us to eradicate these weak points, offer our
customers fair prices and thereby create greater acceptance for open
access publications.”

If 5 % or more of the articles published in one of De Gruyter’s
subscription journals are open access articles, the subscription price
for the journal will be proportionally reduced.

As part of consortium agreements, De Gruyter also offers to offset
APCs (article processing charges) from the subscription price. Both
reductions apply to the following year in accordance with the number
of issues and required expenditure for the previous volume.

Contact

Ulrike Lippe
Public Relations Manager
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