The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-20 Thread Richard Poynder
Dear All, I am trying to establish (in the specific context of scholarly journals) whether anyone knows of any research that has been undertaken to establish the dollar cost of a) implementing the peer review of a scholarly paper, b) distributing a scholarly paper electronically. If so, I would b

Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-20 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Richard Poynder wrote: > I am trying to establish (in the specific context of scholarly journals) > whether anyone knows of any research that has been undertaken to establish > the dollar cost of a) implementing the peer review of a scholarly paper, > b) > distributing a schol

Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-22 Thread Ept
ve his cake and eat it right now. Barbara - Original Message - From: "Stevan Harnad" To: Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:38 PM Subject: Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals > ** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** > >

Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-23 Thread Andrew A . Adams
> His concluding paragraph says, 'A publish for free, read for free' model may > one day prove to be viable. Meanwhile, if I have to choose between the two > evils, I prefer the 'publish for free and pay to read' model over the 'pay > to publish and read for free' one. Because if I must choose betw

Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-24 Thread Stevan Harnad
From: "Enrico M. Balli" List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: May 24, 2008 10:56:55 AM EDT (CA) To: Dear Stevan, I totally share your statement on Richard Poynder's query, and would like to give my contribution to the discussion. Sissa Medialab is not exactly a publisher

Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-23 Thread Talat Chaudhri [tac]
t: Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals > Dr Gadagkar can have his cake and eat it right now. > > Barbara - Original Message - From: "Stevan Harnad" To: Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:38 PM Subject: Re: The cost of peer rev

Re: The cost of peer review and electronic distribution of scholarly journals

2008-05-27 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Talat Chaudhri [tac] wrote: > Gold OA [1] isn't popular and, I suspect, [2] never will be. You are right about the first point [1], and the reason is partly the current price of Gold OA and partly the fact that Gold OA is not yet necessary, because Green OA (self-archiving) c