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Q. What is an article processing charge (APC)?

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An APC is a fee that authors or their organizations pay publishers to make their work available as open access. You can find APC rates on the publisher’s website. To find ways to reduce or eliminate APCs, please use the search feature on Hunt Library’s Open Access Publishing Support Page. 

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