<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:36 PM, David Prosser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.prosser@rluk.ac.uk" target="_blank">david.prosser@rluk.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear All<br><br><br>An economic analysis also suggested that the cost of organising peer review is $250 per submission - an interesting factoid.<br><br></div></blockquote><div>Thanks David - this is a very interesting fact(oid). I have always found it hard to understand why a hybrid OA publication should cost 5000 USD [*]. If the peer-review organization is the key thing and the monopoly that the publishers assert, then everything else can go to the market.<br>
<br>Hey! I can create a PDF myself! I can create images. I can write an abstract. I put the paper on the web. I can do this myself or contract it out. This would lead to a better universal quality of publications. And all of this should be possible for a few hundred dollars - let's say anoth 250 USD on top. Limit of 500 USD.<br>
<br>[*] So the rest of the 5000 USD is profit (and the ruinous cost in the UK of stamps for first class letters).<br> <br>P.<br></div><br></div>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>
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