Morrison, Heather2018-07-092018-07-092018Heather Morrison. Global OA APCs (APC) 2010–2017: Major Trends. Leslie Chan; Pierre Mounier. ELPUB 2018, Jun 2018, Toronto, Canada. <10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2018.16>. <hal-01816699>https://elpub.episciences.org/4604http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37826https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-22086The global OA APC project is a longitudinal study of trends in open access (OA) article processing charges. This article presents major results from the 2017 dataset. In brief, most OA journals do not charge APCs. Non-charging journals appear to be from the not-for-profit sector with some variation of the words "society", "university", or government-related words in the publisher name. The global average APC remains under $1,000 USD, however this is a volatile market with considerable variability. As of 2017, 4 of the 5 largest OA journal publishers by number of journals are traditional commercial scholarly publishers. 5 of the top 25 OA journal publishers are no longer listed in DOAJ.enopen accesseconomicsscholarly journalsarticle processing chargesAPCConference Proceeding