On 1-Sep-10, at 1:28 PM, Jan Velterop wrote: Were academics at large capable of -- or interested in -- organising and managing the publishing of their results, it would look very different and likely be much cheaper.
Comment: Edgar and Willinsky (2010)'s survey of 998 journals using Open Journal Systems found, among other things, that most of these journals are scholar-led, and indeed, much cheaper, with an average cost of $188 per article produced. http://openarchive.stanford.edu/handle/10408/134 This is a small subset of the over 5,000 journals using OJS. Heather Morrison, MLIS PhD Student, SFU School of Communication http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
