petersuber<p>Update. Here's a published article making a cluster of false claims about <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> journals: "In the OA model…costs are…covered by Article Processing Charges (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APCs</span></a>) paid by the authors (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GoldOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldOA</span></a>); in relatively rare cases, some funders cover the full costs of a journal (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DiamondOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DiamondOA</span></a>) to make it free for readers and authors alike."<br><a href="https://www.ssph-journal.org/journals/international-journal-of-public-health/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608614/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ssph-journal.org/journals/inte</span><span class="invisible">rnational-journal-of-public-health/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608614/full</span></a></p><p>1. It claims that most OA journals charge APCs and that diamond OA journals are rare. But most OA journals do NOT charge APCs and diamond OA journals predominate. </p><p>Today the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DOAJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOAJ</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@DOAJ" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DOAJ</span></a></span>) lists 21,597 OA journals, of which 13,735 or 63.5% are diamond. <br><a href="https://doaj.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doaj.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>2. It claims that at APC-based OA journals, APCs are (always) paid by authors. But while this tends to be true in the global south, even there it's only a tendency, not a universal truth. In the north, APCs are usually NOT paid by authors but by their funders or employers. <br><a href="https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>3. There are many ways to fund a diamond or non-APC OA journals, not just by having funders cover their costs.</p><p>BTW, this piece is called a "commentary" and might not have been peer-reviewed. </p><p>In the rest of the piece, the authors complain about misunderstandings of their journal.</p>