{"id":7492,"date":"2020-10-16T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T08:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2020-10-16T08:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T08:21:16","slug":"will-more-journals-start-charging-submission-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2020\/10\/16\/will-more-journals-start-charging-submission-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Will more journals start charging submission fees?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Will the impact of COVID-19 on research and library budgets<\/a> negatively affect the monies available for subscriptions and article processing charges (APCs)? This potential outcome of the pandemic, and downstream effects on publishers, have been explored in a guest post<\/a> by Roy Kaufman for The Scholarly Kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Kaufman predicts that cost-cutting exercises are inevitable and will force publishers to diversify and identify new ways of increasing revenues while reducing costs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He suggests that one way to do this would be with the introduction of submission fees. These would not only generate income but also lessen the number of submissions and deter \u2018poor-quality\u2019 submissions \u2013 thereby making better use of scarce resources, such as editor and peer reviewer time.<\/p>\n

Kaufman highlights five areas that he considers as obstacles to the widespread adoption of such policies:<\/p>\n