There's a major misunderstanding here about the 'value-added version'.
Publishers don't just add value by editing, formatting, linking etc - they
also play a key role in supporting and funding the peer review process
(even though they don't either carry out the PR or - usually - pay the
refere
I mentioned earlier that I'm trying to organise a collaborative exercise
to look at all the DOAJ journals, identifying (a) how many articles
(i.e. 'citeable items') they have published in total and (b) the date of
the most recent item. This requires 14-15 volunteers to take 100
journals each; I h
I think the report (at
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/images/costs_business_7955.pdf) needs to
be read rather carefully
The cost figures are not new, but make sensible use of previously
published figures (whether or not these have been updated to current
values I am not sure); the separation of 'pe
[Four postings: S. Morris, S. Arunachalam, T.B. Rajashekar, B. Mahon]
> Fred Friend wrote:
>
> If only authors did have the right to self-archive post-prints! Many of
> them (and we have all done it) have lost that right when they signed the
> publisher's copyright agreement. In order to self-arc
Fytton Rowland:
> > Indian OA journals have been mentioned here before.
> > Where does the external funding come from?
Vinod Scaria:
> Funding comes from the supporting organisation/institution. This is a
> not-for profit endeavour and what we aim is better visibility/impact to
> papers from respe
The words 'mote' and 'beam' spring to mind...
;-)
Sally
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I wonder whether publishers of OA journals couldn't all accept, on the same
kind of basis as the HINARI and other similar arrangements for
free/discounted subscriptions, that they would waive fees entirely to
authors in the first band of countries, and discount them (half?) to the
next band. Then
A very relevant paper has been drafted by a group of scientists (and
even a couple of publishers) on behalf of the AAAS. The paper attempts
to define 'publication' in the digital environment, and essentially
comes up with two definitions - 'first publication' and 'formal
publication'. Please do hav
