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

[Dominique Babini]

I share with members of this list, some information provided by Abel
Packer, Coordinator of the SciELO program.  I copy him in this message

.It is correct that a few journals included in SciELO collections charge
APC´s.  But only very few of the 1.147 journals included in SciELO from
scholarly and academic publishers of 15 countries.

Abel provided this update about SciELO:

(a) SciELO journals are funded by a mix of sources, including their
publishers (scientific societies and research institutions), government
programs, sponsors and article processing charges. APC is being used mainly
in Brazil, but for less than 5% of the 280 indexed journals;

(b) APC are charged by journals not by SciELO.

(c) the SciELO internal cost of indexing each article and building
indicators for Brazilian journals varies from 90 to 120 dollars depending
on the exchange rate, and this cost is covered by government funds through
research agencies"

(d) SciELO publishing platform is progressively providing all publishing
services that can be used optionally by journals. Among the services SciELO
will provide journals an options to collect APC.

any further questions can be addressed to him at SciELO  abel.packer@
gmail.com


best wishes,
Dominique




2013/12/17 Graham Triggs <grahamtriggs at gmail.com>

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