I basically agree with Stevan Harnad, but I am beginning to have some concern that the "residual" cost that has to be borne by the author's institution is not so very negligible. Paul Gherman on this list recently suggested $1000 per article. The Institute of Physics' (IoP) New Journal of Physics charges $500. Halliday & Oppenheim in my department recently separately arrived at a figure quite close to Gherman's, and suggested that the IoP's figure was therefore too low for financial viability. This is a far cry from the (genuinely negligible) amount suggested by the Florida Society for Entomology. These high figures, if correct, do call into question the viability of the new Harnadian system.
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