Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A UK university administers the UKRI Open Access Block Grant, paying APCs on behalf of grant-funded authors within scope.
- Is an instance
A researcher submits an APC reimbursement claim against their NIH grant's publication budget.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A subscription payment to a journal is not APC reimbursement.
- Not an instance
A monograph purchase is not an APC.
Editorial commentary
APC reimbursement operates through several models: (a) direct charge to the project's open-access publication budget, drawn against grant funds; (b) institutional block grants (UKRI, Wellcome) that the institution administers and distributes by published rules; (c) read-and-publish or transformative agreements brokered by the institution that cover APCs centrally; (d) post-acceptance reimbursement claims to a separate funder pool. Funder caps (e.g., the Wellcome cap on hybrid OA, Plan S restrictions) shape eligibility. The term Article processing charge already exists in the knowledge-equity domain and is cross-linked here.
References
- UKRI Open Access Block Grant guidance; Wellcome Open Access Policy.
Also known as
APC payment (funder) · Funder OA reimbursement
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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