In April 2025, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) introduced its Repository License Fee (RLF). These new fees, applied when authors add a CC-BY license to their manuscript in order to deposit it in an open archive, amount to $1,275 for journal articles and $400 for conference proceedings. Alain Schuhl, the CNRS's Deputy CEO for Science (DGDS) at the CNRS, warns of the abuses associated with this practice and recommends that his researchers do not pay the RLF.
