The charge can be broken down into a submission fee (for all articles) and a publication fee (for those articles published.) The submission fee covers the cost of peer review; the publication fee covers the cost of copy-editing and distribution.
Dr. David Goodman Associate Professor, Palmer School of Library and Information Science Long Island University, Brookville, NY dgood...@liu.edu -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Grimwade [mailto:agrimw...@the-scientist.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:34 PM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: New channel of support for open-access publishing Journals with 90% rejection rates, like Nature, Science and Cell have considerably higher editorial costs (per published paper) than those with rejection rates of 40%-60%, which is an average value for middle-of-the-road biomedical journals. Nearly the same effort goes into peer reviewing a rejected paper as an accepted paper. As PLoS charges only those authors whose papers are published, and as they aspire to Nature-like selectivity, their editorial costs will be higher than "average" open-access journals. You might even call their $1,500 a bargain. ---------------------------- Alexander M. Grimwade Ph. D. Publisher THE SCIENTIST 3535 Market Street, Suite 200 Philadelphia PA 19104-3385 Phone: (215) 386 9601 x3020 Fax: (215) 387 7542 Email: agrimw...@the-scientist.com Web Site: http://www.the-scientist.com
