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The rise of open access (OA) publishing has been followed by the expansion ofthe Article Publishing Charges (APC) that moves the financial burden ofscholarly journal publishing from readers to authors. We introduce the resultsof an international randomly selected sampled survey (N=3,422) that exploresattitudes towards this pay-to-publish or Gold OA model among scholars. We testthe predictor role of age, professional position, discipline, and income-levelcountry in this regard. We found that APCs are perceived more as a globalthreat to Science than a deterrent to personal professional careers. Academicsin low and lower-middle income level countries hold the most unfavorableopinions about the APC system. The less experimental disciplines held morenegative perceptions of APC compared to STEM and the Life Sciences. Age andaccess to external funding stood as negative predictors of refusal to pay topublish. Commitment to OA self-archiving predicted the negative globalperception of the APC. We conclude that access to external research fundsinfluences the acceptance and the particular perception of the pay to publishmodel, remarking the economic dimension of the problem and warning about issuesin the inequality between center and periphery.

Attitudes, willingness, and resources to cover Article Publishing  Charges (APC): the influence of age, position, income level country,  discipline and open access habits