id Url Resource template Resource class Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Language Relation Coverage Rights Alternative Title Abstract Date Created Date Issued Date Modified Medium Is Replaced By Replaces Requires Is Part Of Has Part Is Referenced By References Spatial Coverage Temporal Coverage Access Rights Bibliographic Citation License Rights Holder Cited by Cites Editor List of editors Status Doi Identifier Isbn Issn Issue Number of pages Number of volumes Pages Short title Uri Volume Name Surname Homepage Funded by Account Member Status Tag Number Current Location Is Shown At Is Shown By Europeana Rights Europeana Type Part of Is supported by Is supplied by Latitude Longitude Lat/long Has format Operating systems In series 15439 https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/15439 Academic Article bibo:AcademicArticle Current market rates for scholarly publishing services Grossmann, Alexander | Brembs, Björn 2021 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed as the latest potential solution. However, the prices for open access publishing are also high and are rising well beyond inflation. What has been missing from the public discussion so far is a quantitative approach to determine the actual costs of efficiently publishing a scholarly article using state-of-the-art technologies, such that informed decisions can be made as to appropriate price levels. Here we provide a granular, step-by-step calculation of the costs associated with publishing primary research articles, from submission, through peer-review, to publication, indexing and archiving. We find that these costs range from less than US$200 per article in modern, large-scale publishing platforms using post-publication peer-review, to about US$1,000 per article in prestigious journals with rejection rates exceeding 90%. The publication costs for a representative scholarly article today come to lie at around US$400. We discuss the additional non-publication items that make up the difference between publication costs and final price. F1000Research https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.27468.1 20 https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20 10 https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/8MGUU5Q5/item-list