id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16602 Sotudeh, Hajar; Ghasempour, Zahra The World’s Approach toward Publishing in Springer and Elsevier’s APC-Funded Open Access Journals 2018-02-27 22 .pdf application/pdf 9603 374 49 However, the number of OA papers published in the journals remains small compared to their total number of papers,9 and adoption rates vary strongly across different disciplines.10 Since the APC model does not confront journals with funding difficulties and fi- nancial complexities, it might enjoy more stability and a higher chance of survival.11 However, the model involves a heavy financial burden on the author who is likely to run into major difficulties while paying for publication in any journal.12 For instance, she has to pay $3,000 and $500–$5,000 for each paper to be published in Elsevier and Springer journals, respectively. In the next stage, OA papers were separated from non-OA ones using “open access” label. cache/crl-16602.pdf txt/crl-16602.txt