<font color="#000000">Dear All,</font><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">It seems everyone is now slashing the prices for publication!!! Its all result of the pressure from the OA advocates and Researchers?</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Its a welcome sign but as heather rightly said, if $99 is the price for publication of an article? seeing the funding for the research and absolutely no earmarked for payment to publish/processing, how would developing countries and the country like India could afford to publish?</font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 January 2013 23:12, Heather Morrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hgmorris@sfu.ca" target="_blank">hgmorris@sfu.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sage Open has reduced their open access article processing fee to $99 per article. The announcement is posted here:<br>
<a href="http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/press/2013/jan/24_jan.htm" target="_blank">http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/press/2013/jan/24_jan.htm</a><br>
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This is not the first OA publisher to come out with prices in this range. PeerJ, established by Peter Binfield (formerly PLoS ONE), has open access fees on a lifetime membership basis starting from $99.<br>
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This raises some interesting questions. For example:<br>
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What is the real cost of publishing in an open access online environment? Sage OPEN and PeerJ are both commercial companies. If $99 is sufficient to cover the costs of coordinating peer review and publication, why would anyone pay even the $1,350 charged by PLoS ONE, never mind the $3,000 plus charged by some of the traditional publishers under hybrid arrangements?<br>
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Is this an indication that transitioning to open access will indeed open up the inelastic market for scholarly journals to competition?<br>
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best,<br>
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Heather G. Morrison, PhD<br>
Freedom for scholarship in the internet age<br>
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