<div dir="ltr">I share with members of this list, some information provided by Abel Packer, Coordinator of the SciELO program. I copy him in this message<div>
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<font color="#777777" face="normal arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">.I</span></font><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:'normal arial',sans-serif">t 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.</span></div>
<div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abel provided this update about SciELO:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
(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;</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(b) APC are charged by journals not by SciELO.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(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"<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(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.</div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">any further questions can be addressed to him at SciELO </span><font color="#000000" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> <span style="font-family:'normal arial',sans-serif;font-size:12px">abel.packer</span><span style="font-family:'normal arial',sans-serif;font-size:12px">@<a href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></span></font><br>
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</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/12/17 Graham Triggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grahamtriggs@gmail.com" target="_blank">grahamtriggs@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 17 December 2013 16:32, Couture Marc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc.couture@teluq.ca" target="_blank">marc.couture@teluq.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">This is a somewhat incomplete, if not flawed argument.</span><br></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">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”.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. <span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></div>
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