Many of you have argued that Gold OA - at last - creates a genuine
marketplace between publishers and authors. In any marketplace, sellers
price according to what they consider their offer is worth to buyers. Some
journals are worth more than others to authors (indeed, publishers generally
There's nothing odd about companies wanting to profit off of the work of
others. What is unusual about scholarly publishing is that the costs are not
connected with the impact of the costs in an obvious way.
For example it would be most surprising if, at the University of Alberta,
discussions
Dear Heather
The point I was trying to make is that - unlike with subscriptions - there
is a direct connection between the person who benefits from the value
offered (the author) and the publisher. Thus the marketplace should operate
normally.
'Profits' are not in themselves bad - they are
Heather Morrison writes
If a university is looking for voluntary severance from faculty
members while at the same time paying even more above inflationary
cost increases to publishers with high profit margins, that is wrong
and needs to stop.
I agree. And the way to stop it is to cancel
Sally,
As noted in my introductory blogpost on this topic, my comments are on the high
cost of subscriptions and the 5-7% price increases as projected by EBSCO:
http://www2.ebsco.com/EN-US/NEWSCENTER/Pages/ViewArticle.aspx?QSID=600
The only place where OA article processing fees fit into this
Heather, if you look back over the thread you will see that I was responding
to Dana Roth's posting about the variability of Hindawi's APCs. Nothing
else
Sally
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On 5 October 2013 19:12, Sally Morris sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.ukwrote:
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The point I was trying to make is that - unlike with subscriptions - there
is a direct connection between the person who benefits from the value
offered (the author) and the publisher. Thus the marketplace should
I fully agree Sally. Where there is an APC for fully Gold journals (or free
which is simply a limiting case) in a fully Gold publication industry, the
normal economic processes will kick in to make an effective market.
They dont with institutional subscription journals where the payers are
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Graham Triggs grahamtri...@gmail.comwrote:
In an author-pays model, the author is paying in part for the peer-review,
editing,
production, distribution - which are all replicable and comparable services
between
publishers, and in part the reputation of the
On 5 October 2013 19:51, Heather Morrison heather.morri...@uottawa.cawrote:
The only place where OA article processing fees fit into this picture is
with hybrid journals / publishers. If the market were working, overall
subscription prices should be decreasing, not increasing, to reflect the
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