{
 "name": "Publisher responses to JournalFees",
 "description": "Substantive answers from publishers and data-source operators to questions JournalFees asked about their fee and waiver pages. Automatic acknowledgements are not listed. An answer by email is recorded as the publisher's statement; figures on the site still come from the publisher's own page, and where the two differ both are shown.",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "dateModified": "2026-10-26",
 "responses": [
  {
   "org": "DOAJ",
   "kind": "source",
   "role": "Deputy Director",
   "date": "2026-10-26",
   "page": "/about/vs-doaj/",
   "asked": "May JournalFees link to DOAJ journal records as a source, and is there a data-use arrangement? We also sent a list of journals whose APCs differ between DOAJ and their own websites.",
   "answer": "Linking is welcome; please do not use the DOAJ logo, so that DOAJ does not appear to favour one service. DOAJ is aware that some APC entries differ from journals’ own websites: it relies on publishers to send updates, now asks them every year for their current list prices, and the next round goes out early next year.",
   "change": "DOAJ records are cited as a lead, never as a price source, and the DOAJ logo is not used.",
   "page_matches": true
  },
  {
   "org": "Turanian Journal",
   "kind": "journal",
   "role": "Executive Editor",
   "date": "2026-10-26",
   "page": "/journals/central-asia-caucasus/",
   "asked": "Our first letter said we could not find the journal’s author-fee, licence, ethics and archiving statements on the institute page we had read. Where does the journal state them?",
   "answer": "All of it is on the journal’s own website, and the editor sent the links: no fees for submission, editorial processing, peer review or publication (a no-fee, open access journal); CC BY 4.0 with authors keeping copyright; and separate pages for publication ethics and for archiving and preservation.",
   "change": "Record corrected from “no clear statement found” to “no author charge stated”, citing the journal’s own pages, read on 26 October 2026. The institute page we had read first was not the journal’s own.",
   "page_matches": true
  },
  {
   "org": "The Company of Biologists",
   "kind": "publisher",
   "role": "Editorial Administrator, Disease Models & Mechanisms",
   "date": "2026-10-22",
   "page": "/publishers/company-of-biologists/",
   "asked": "Our page did not say whether the country waivers cover Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology. Do the country waivers cover the hybrid journals?",
   "answer": "No. The hybrid journals do not offer waivers, as they retain a free-to-publish option, under which articles become free to read after 12 months.",
   "change": "The Hybrid line on the publisher page and in the country tables changed from “not stated” to “no”; the page names Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology as the journals our question concerned.",
   "page_matches": true
  },
  {
   "org": "Microbiology Society",
   "kind": "publisher",
   "role": "Publishing Operations",
   "date": "2026-10-21",
   "page": "/publishers/microbiology-society/",
   "asked": "Do 2026 rates still apply to articles accepted before 1 January 2027? Does 'only one discount per submission' mean a HINARI Group B author who is also a member gets only the larger discount?",
   "answer": "2026 prices apply to articles accepted before 17 December 2026, when prices update in CCC RightsLink. The 30% member discount is applied in addition to the automatic 50% HINARI discount: HINARI first, then 30% off the reduced fee.",
   "change": "2027 rates added from the fee page; the 17 December 2026 boundary and the combined discount shown as the Society's statement, next to the page text, which still says only one discount may be applied per submission.",
   "page_matches": false
  },
  {
   "org": "Pensoft",
   "kind": "publisher",
   "role": "Indexing and Archiving",
   "date": "2026-10-21",
   "page": "/publishers/pensoft/",
   "asked": "Both Tuhinga links in Pensoft's list point to Papahou's page; and does Journal of Orthoptera Research charge non-members of the Orthopterists' Society?",
   "answer": "The Tuhinga links in the list were an error. Journal of Orthoptera Research is free of charge for all authors (Diamond Open Access); an outdated sentence about members was left in Focus and Scope and has been removed.",
   "change": "Tuhinga source link corrected to the journal's own page; Journal of Orthoptera Research marked free for all authors.",
   "page_matches": true
  },
  {
   "org": "Pensoft",
   "kind": "publisher",
   "role": "Indexing and Archiving",
   "date": "2026-10-20",
   "page": "/publishers/pensoft/",
   "asked": "Is there a per-journal fee page to cite instead of pensoft.net/open-access?",
   "answer": "Sent a list of 69 journals it publishes or hosts on ARPHA, with links to each journal's APC and waiver sections.",
   "change": "All 69 journal pages read on 21 October 2026; Pensoft entries rebuilt from them.",
   "page_matches": true
  },
  {
   "org": "Pensoft",
   "kind": "publisher",
   "role": "Indexing and Archiving",
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "page": "/publishers/pensoft/",
   "asked": "Are the figures on pensoft.net/open-access per-journal APCs?",
   "answer": "No. They are average publishing costs; APCs, waivers and discounts vary by journal, and each journal's own website is the primary source.",
   "change": "Average-cost figures removed; Pensoft fields left empty until the journal pages were read.",
   "page_matches": true
  },
  {
   "org": "Royal Society Publishing",
   "kind": "publisher",
   "role": "Publishing",
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "page": "/publishers/royal-society/",
   "asked": "Who handles enquiries about Royal Society APC and waiver information, so that we link to the right page?",
   "answer": "publishing@royalsociety.org is the right address for open access requests; APCs are on royalsociety.org/journals/open-access/#apcs.",
   "change": "That page is cited as the APC source.",
   "page_matches": true
  },
  {
   "org": "Research4Life",
   "kind": "source",
   "role": "Support team",
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "page": "/classifications/research4life/",
   "asked": "Is research4life.org/access/eligibility the canonical source for Group A and B, and is there a changelog?",
   "answer": "The eligibility page is where the lists are published; there is no changelog. Adjustments are added as footnotes on the page a few months before they take effect.",
   "change": "The page is cited as the only source; its footnotes are checked monthly.",
   "page_matches": true
  }
 ],
 "awaiting": [
  {
   "org": "Cambridge University Press",
   "asked": "2026-10-21",
   "topic": "two points in our APC and waiver data"
  },
  {
   "org": "BMJ",
   "asked": "2026-10-21",
   "topic": "one point in our APC data"
  },
  {
   "org": "De Gruyter Brill",
   "asked": "2026-10-21",
   "topic": "whether the 80% / 30% equity discounts cover hybrid and former Brill journals"
  },
  {
   "org": "EIFL",
   "asked": "2026-10-21",
   "topic": "a contact for agreement changes; 33 vs 32 countries on the Microbiology Society agreement page"
  }
 ]
}