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
Prior Subject Threads:
"Savings from Converting to On-Line-Only: 30%- or 70%+ ?"
(Started Aug 27 1998)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0002.html
"The Logic of Page Charges to Free the Journal Literature"
(Started Apr
Peter,
I began thinking exactly as you suggest. Institutions
paying the charges for their own faculty from library
journals budgets. But then I ran the numbers. Vanderbilt
spends 1.8 million a year on journal subscription, not
all serials. We have 1500 faculty. At a minor charge of
$1,000 per arti
Why is Paul Gherman complicating a simple issue? The dissemination of
research results is part of the research process. If an institution is
successful, then part of its responsibility should be to make the results
known. Surely, the cost of disseminating the research of its faculty and
staff (y
> Mark Doyle said:
>
> > There are two big hurdles: 1) reducing the cost of handling electronic
> > manuscripts and 2) author/institution/funding agency acceptance of
> > paying submission fees up front.
>
> Regarding 2), I have heard some concerns that this would unfairly
> penalize the most pro
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Steve Hitchcock [shi] wrote:
> sha> Why would anyone want to continue paying for what they can get for free?
>
shi> Good question, and one for the commercial players to
shi> answer. Non-exclusivity is the lever to get them to answer, and it would be
shi> good not just for autho
Stevan, In view of the recent explosion of debate you have
participated in (Scholar's Forum etc.) this is going back a week or so, but
in the interest of wanting not to 'weigh it (the LANL model) down' ...
At 12:44 PM 4/28/99 +0100, you wrote:
>It is conceivable to pay for the quality co
> From: "Marvin Margoshes"
>
> It is sensible to ask why a reader would pay for information he can get
> free. It is equally sensible to ask why an author would pay if there is a
> free alternative.
Fair question!
Answer:
(1) Learned-journal authors, unlike normal authors, publish, not to
make
I am posting this exchange with my colleague Steve Hitchcock in the
hope that it will elucidate the logic of up-front author page-charges
and their role in freeing the journal literature for everyone.
Stevan Harnad
shi> From: Steve Hitchcock
shi> Open Journal Project
shi> Multimedia Research Gro
It is sensible to ask why a reader would pay for information he can get
free. It is equally sensible to ask why an author would pay if there is a
free alternative.
Perhaps the past experience with page charges is no longer valid, but we
don't know that to be the case. I keep saying - experiment
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