An evolving business model for scholarly publishing: exploring the payment of article processing charges (APCs) to achieve open access

<p>In terms of scholarly publishing the academic library’s role in Kaitiakitanga is changing.<br>Open access is growing in importance as library budgets contract. There are two main routes<br>to open access: the green route through submission of manuscripts to institutional and<br>subject repositories and the gold route which may require authors to pay article processing<br>charges (APCs). Research Councils in the UK now provide UK universities with a block<br>grant to help UK researchers publish using gold open access. So how are researchers in New<br>Zealand responding to the availability of the gold open access road without similar support?<br>Is this business model working in New Zealand, why are researchers choosing this route and<br>what are the trends? This paper will report the results of a current survey of University of<br>Canterbury researchers publishing their outputs using gold open access. It also aims to<br>uncover the motives for going gold and indicate the demand and costs to an institution of this<br>publishing route, so providing a case study of gold open access publishing in New Zealand.</p> <p>