[GOAL] Re: Jeffrey Beall Needlessly Compromises Credibility of Beall's List

[Couture Marc]

Citing a blog post (http://blog.scielo.org/en/2013/09/18/how-much-does-it-cost-to-publish-in-open-access ), Graham Triggs wrote:

>
> publishing in SciELO journals ranges from US $660 in one subsidized journal, to
> US $900 for foreign authors in another journal.
>
> US $900 puts it in a similar ballpark to the lower prices of the commercial
> publishers.
>

This is a somewhat incomplete, if not flawed argument.

1. The prices mentioned by Graham are just two examples (out of 280 current journals in SciELO Brazil). One reads further in the same blog post : "In the case of SciELO Brazil, the average per article cost of publication is around US $130".

2. The two examples are both medical journals, which tend to have higher APCs, for instance, $2900 for PLoS Medicine (more than twice than PloS One).

Marc Couture

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