Arun, Even accepting that staff costs are lower in India than in Europe or North America, these journals must have *some* costs that they need to cover from income. How is this income raised?
Fytton Rowland, Loughbrough University, UK. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 3:00 AM Subject: Re: How many journals sell authors Open Access by the article? > In India journals published by the Indian Academy of > Sciences and Indian National Science Academy are > entirely open access and authors are NOT CHARGED AT > ALL. Thus these are free for readers and authors pay > nothing. However, subscribers to the print version pay > an annual subscription which is ridiculously low > compared to the subscription costs of even journals > published by professional societies in USA and Europe, > let alone commercial publishers. > > There are other such journals as well. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam]
