[GOAL] Projekt DEAL is a very serious impediment to BOAI Open Access

[Rzepa, Henry S]

Nature Publishing have an interesting approach to reviewers.  If all the reviewers AND authors of any given article agree (assuming its published), then the no-longer anonymous reviews can be included alongside the article itself, with name attribution at least  to the reviewers. As per everything else, the reviewers would not be paid for such exposure. I have yet to establish who could successfully claim copyright for these reviews. One might think the reviewers, but things are never that simple.

BUT: A colleague reports he was invited to write an "commentary" (rather than a review)  to go alongside an article. After writing and submitting it, he was hit with a full APC for his invited commentary. 

I also note that if a review is considered particularly substantive,  it might instead be directed towards eg https://www.nature.com/ncomms/submit/matters-arising    This information clearly states "Matters Arising and their Replies are not subject to article processing charges".  But it might be tempting to conclude that some other publishers might be tempted to use open reviews as yet another income stream?

Henry Rzepa

> On 1 Sep 2019, at 09:08, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> wrote:
> 
>  Peter Murray-Rust writes
> 
>> * set a precedent for everyone else - the "true price" of an article at
>> 2750 Eur.
> 
>  It would not be outrageous if the reviewers---who do all the real
>  work---would get 2k, say 500 for each of four reviewers. But I guess
>  they will get only three things: zilch, nada, and sweet fa.
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Cheers,
> 
>  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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