[GOAL] Re: Effect of Green OA on Publishers

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:36 PM, David Prosser <david.prosser at rluk.ac.uk>wrote:

> Dear All
>
>
> An economic analysis also suggested that the cost of organising peer
> review is $250 per submission - an interesting factoid.
>
> Thanks David - this is a very interesting fact(oid). I have always found
it hard to understand why a hybrid OA publication should cost 5000 USD [*].
If the peer-review organization is the key thing and the monopoly that the
publishers assert, then everything else can go to the market.

Hey! I can create a PDF myself!  I can create images. I can write an
abstract. I put the paper on the web. I can do this myself or contract it
out. This would lead to a better universal quality of publications. And all
of this should be possible for a few hundred dollars - let's say anoth 250
USD on top. Limit of 500 USD.

[*] So the rest of the 5000 USD is profit (and the ruinous cost in the UK
of stamps for first class letters).

P.

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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