[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-06 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits 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

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-06 Thread Arthur Sale
...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Guédon Sent: Monday, 7 October 2013 6:08 AM To: goal@eprints.org Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits And the result of this effective market is that wealth will become an important factor

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2013-10-05 Thread Sally Morris
-assocs.demon.co.uk _ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Dana Roth Sent: 04 October 2013 20:00 To: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits In defense of Jeffrey Beall … the extreme

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2013-10-05 Thread Heather Morrison
...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Dana Roth Sent: 04 October 2013 20:00 To: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)' Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits In defense of Jeffrey Beall … the extreme variability of Hindawi’s APCs

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2013-10-05 Thread Sally Morris
] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: 05 October 2013 17:48 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits There's nothing odd about companies wanting to profit off of the work of others. What

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2013-10-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
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

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Heather Morrison
...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: 05 October 2013 17:48 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits There's nothing odd about companies

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Sally Morris
Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits 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

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2013-10-05 Thread Graham Triggs
On 5 October 2013 19:12, Sally Morris sa...@morris-assocs.demon.co.ukwrote: ** 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

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Arthur Sale
...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: 05 October 2013 17:48 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Cc: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits There's nothing odd about companies wanting

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-05 Thread Graham Triggs
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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2013-10-04 Thread David Prosser
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits Jeffrey in the comment section to your post Ahmed Hindawi points out that the average revenue per paper published by Hindawi is about $600. For people like Elsevier it is in excess

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2013-10-04 Thread Frantsvåg Jan Erik
. oktober 2013 10:27 Til: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Emne: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits Jeffrey Ignoratio elenchi? That's from Harry Potter, right? Spell meaning 'facts be gone'? Heather is interested in the flow of money out of academia. If that is your

[GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits

2013-10-04 Thread Heather Morrison
...@eprints.orgmailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] På vegne av David Prosser Sendt: 4. oktober 2013 10:27 Til: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Emne: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits Jeffrey Ignoratio elenchi? That's from Harry Potter, right? Spell meaning

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2013-10-04 Thread Dana Roth
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits Jeffrey Ignoratio elenchi? That's from Harry Potter, right? Spell meaning 'facts be gone'? Heather is interested in the flow of money out of academia. If that is your area of interest

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2013-10-03 Thread Beall, Jeffrey
Heather: I've documentedhttp://scholarlyoa.com/2013/04/04/hindawis-profits-are-larger-than-elseviers/ that Hindawi's profit margin is higher than Elsevier's. So, I am correct in assuming that you include Hindawi in your advice below, no? Also, it's been revealed that a number of the higher

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2013-10-03 Thread David Prosser
Jeffrey in the comment section to your post Ahmed Hindawi points out that the average revenue per paper published by Hindawi is about $600. For people like Elsevier it is in excess of $4000 per paper. I think it is clear which publisher is taking (significantly) more money out of the system.

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2013-10-03 Thread Beall, Jeffrey
David, Thank you for your ignoratio elenchi. --Jeffrey From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of David Prosser Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 3:03 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: Scholars jobs not publisher profits