You really should read this statement by a publisher. They charge $3000 for
hybrid OA (what do they spend it on?) plus possible costs for unwanted
colour printing (can you request monochrome in the print version and avoid
the charge? I cannot conceive why online colour costs any more), reprints
(wh
Whoops, quick correction of an order-of-magnitude slip of my own:
That's "this BIS largesse would just be a hand-out to pay for Gold OA
(voluntarily) for 1000 UK research papers: 1/6th of the UK's annual
research output."
Not: "1/6th of the UK's annual research output"
(Same consequence, though,
** Cross-Posted **
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Frederick Friend wrote:
Is it not amazing how, even in these difficult economic times,
> governments can find extra cash to smooth over the mistakes in their own
> policies! The extra £10 million for 30 UK universities to pay APCs to
> publish
