Episode 41: The economics of the article processing charge
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Two economists and a library director work through where the money actually goes, and who is cross-subsidising whom. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset together with the code needed to reproduce every figure is deposited under a permissive licence. Limitations, including coverage gaps in non-English sources, are set out in the discussion.
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