[GOAL] Re: Forthcoming research: open access article processing fees

[Leslie Chan]

Heather,
You probably came across this already, but just in case:

Marcin Kozak and James Hartley, Publication fees for open access journals:
Different disciplines‹different methods Journal of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology
Article first published online: 18 SEP 2013 | DOI: 10.1002/asi.22972

Not OA!

Leslie 



-----Original Message-----
From: "Andrew A. Adams" <aaa at meiji.ac.jp>
Reply-To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2013 2:18 AM
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>,
Heather Morrison <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Forthcoming research: open access article processing
fees

>
>Heather,
>
>The ACM, a major scholarly society publisher in computer science, set it
>APCs 
>for hybrid gold journals (and hybrid gold for its fully-refereed
>conference 
>proceedings, an unusual element of computer science research whereby full
>papers are reviewed for conference which produce proceedings which are of
>equivalent status to journals, in some cases being the premiere
>publication 
>locus in a field) by reference explicitly not to the costs it incurs for
>articles but at the "low end of commercial publishing rates". They are
>looking at their entire business model (which currently has publishing as
>a 
>major income line but which they admit is an uncertain basis on which to
>proceed) over the next few months but any changes to this will not be
>quick. 
>There are groups within ACM pushing for cost-receovery only on APCs
>including 
>breaks for under-resourced authors (including but not limited to those
>from 
>developing economies).
>
>-- 
>Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
>Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
>Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
>Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
>
>
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