Publications to avoid ... one could use http://www.journalprices.com
Journal Cost-Effectiveness 2011 Select a subject area and sort by price per article ... with descending results ... And quickly see the most outrageously priced journals. The problem, however, is that the list could use some editing for obvious errors. Most Librarians should be able to prepare a list of representative journals, obtain the 2011 subscription price and check Web of Science of the number of published articles and run the numbers. We did this 20 years ago to alert faculty to the major disparity between non-profit society and commercially published journals. It is very important NOT to compare review journals with research journals and make allowances for added value content like Nature and Science. Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 dzr...@library.caltech.edu http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of R. Stephen Berry Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:29 AM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] A suggestion Would it be useful to have a listing available to let working scientists know which publications they should avoid using, based on field and, more important, on the publishing policies of the publisher? Steve Berry _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
