Heather Morrison in SCHOLCOMM list:
Sage Open has reduced their open access article processing fee to $99 per article. The announcement is posted here:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/press/2013/jan/24_jan.htm
This is not the first OA publisher to come out with prices in this range. PeerJ, established by Peter Binfield (formerly PLoS ONE), has open access fees on a lifetime membership basis starting from $99.
This raises some interesting questions. For example:
What is the real cost of publishing in an open access online environment? Sage OPEN and PeerJ are both commercial companies. If $99 is sufficient to cover the costs of coordinating peer review and publication, why would anyone pay even the $1,350 charged by PLoS ONE, never mind the $3,000 plus charged by some of the traditional publishers under hybrid arrangements?
Sage Open has reduced their open access article processing fee to $99 per article. The announcement is posted here:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/press/2013/jan/24_jan.htm
This is not the first OA publisher to come out with prices in this range. PeerJ, established by Peter Binfield (formerly PLoS ONE), has open access fees on a lifetime membership basis starting from $99.
This raises some interesting questions. For example:
What is the real cost of publishing in an open access online environment? Sage OPEN and PeerJ are both commercial companies. If $99 is sufficient to cover the costs of coordinating peer review and publication, why would anyone pay even the $1,350 charged by PLoS ONE, never mind the $3,000 plus charged by some of the traditional publishers under hybrid arrangements?
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013, 18:45 - Rubrik: English Corner
