... of journals indexed by Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the fee structure levied by them as article processing charges (APCs). Findings Open access journal publishers have to evolve a mechanism that will share the burden of the authors interested in publishing in OA journals that levy article...

..., certainly librarians in academic and specialist libraries, anyone involved with budgets and cost‐effectiveness, and anyone in (or interested in) the publishing dimension. Over‐arching the whole debate, of course, is the shift to electronic/digital journal publishing and online delivery in recent years...