[GOAL] submission fee

[Kimberly Douglas]

I'm with Jan on the rationality of achieving OA through submission fees.    It does make economic and market-based sense.  After all, scholarly publishing is a 2-sided market and for OA to really come about the manuscript submission side needs to carry its weight instead of being subsidized by the readership.   A publisher could implement a required submission fee in exchange for OA for everything.  They have their numbers and know exactly what the submission fee would need to be.  What's holding them up?  Such a change would be a welcome positive and market-healthy action on the part of the PSP.

Jan does a nice job of outlining the constructive outcomes of such a requirement on his blog.    It'd be interesting to get some read on range of potential submission fee rates.

Kimberly Douglas
University Librarian
Caltech

From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Jan Velterop
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:14 PM
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Cc: Peter Murray-Rust
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Why should publishers agree to Green OA?

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That said, I am a strong supporter of the notion of submission fees covering all the costs of a journal, instead of only publication fees. As a kind of 'exam fee'. That would allow journals to be selective without very high publication fees for the few articles accepted and published. And there are more advantages: http://theparachute.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/science-publishing-all-about-submission.html

Jan


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