Article processing charge

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What Wikipedia says

An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors. Most commonly, it is involved in making an academic work available as open access (OA), in either a full OA journal or in a hybrid journal.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Article processing charge”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Authors of the study: Leigh-Ann Butler, Lisa Matthias, Marc-André Simard, Philippe Mongeon, Stefanie Haustein, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.