The National Agency of Research and Development from Chile is proposing, for the first time, a national OA policy aiming to ensure access to the scientific knowledge contained in publications resulting from research projects and graduate thesis. Since no information regarding APC expenditure in Chile is available, this study examined the cost of APC for the 2019 publications that included at least one Chilean affiliation. The total expenditure for the year 2019 was estimated at USD 9,129,939. The results confirm that almost one third of the total APC was spent on publications from Health & Medical Sciences, research area with the highest APC (USD 6000). Furthermore, five commercial publishers collected 52% of the total APC expenditure. Unfortunately, the cost of publishing in some journals is so high that it causes detrimental effects on the research capacity of under resourced individuals. In the Chilean scenario, APC is not well suited to scale as most universities do not have an OA budget to support researchers that are eager to publish their work in OA journals. Perhaps the implementation of an OA policy ought to be accompanied by sustainable APC funding grants aimed at supporting under resourced researchers that want to make their research freely available.

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智利的文章加工费支出：现状

智利国家研究与发展局首次提出国家开放获取政策，旨在确保获得研究项目和研究生论文所产生的出版物中包含的科学知识。由于没有关于智利 APC 支出的信息，本研究检查了 2019 年至少包括一个智利附属机构的出版物的 APC 成本。2019 年的总支出估计为 9,129,939 美元。结果证实，APC 总额的近三分之一用于来自健康与医学科学的出版物，这是 APC 最高的研究领域（6000 美元）。此外，五家商业出版商收取了 APC 总支出的 52%。很遗憾，在某些期刊上发表文章的成本如此之高，以至于对资源不足的个人的研究能力造成不利影响。在智利的情况下，APC 不太适合扩展，因为大多数大学没有 OA 预算来支持渴望在 OA 期刊上发表其工作的研究人员。也许 OA 政策的实施应该伴随着可持续的 APC 资助赠款，旨在支持资源不足的研究人员，他们希望免费提供他们的研究。