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

[Graham Triggs]

On 17 December 2013 16:32, Couture Marc <marc.couture at teluq.ca> wrote:

>  This is a somewhat incomplete, if not flawed argument.
>
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> 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”.
>

Does that represent US $130 cost to the author, or US $130 cost for the
journal? There are cases of subsidized journals on SciELO, in which case
you then also have to look at where that funding is coming from, to
consider the overall cost to the public purse of publishing on SciELO.

Without knowing more detail (and we have to accept that and make allowances
for incomplete information on both sides of the fence), it's not
unreasonable to suggest that the higher priced APCs for SciELO journals are
more indicative of the true underlying publishing costs.

G
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