<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">This isn’t especially new, at least in some fields (e.g. economics). Here’s a short report I did for Knowledge Exchange a few years back that has some examples: <a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=413">http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=413</a><div><br></div><div>There’s actually a respectable case for splitting charges in submission and publication charges, but publishers don’t want to “go first” because they fear disadvantage in competing for authors</div><div><br></div><div> -M </div><div><br><div><div>On 24 Oct 2014, at 10:34, Kiley, Robert <<a href="mailto:r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk">r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">I don’t think this quite addresses your question, but I note that PNAS charges an $1800 “publication fee”. See<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.pnas.org/site/authors/fees.xhtml" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.pnas.org/site/authors/fees.xhtml</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>. This is not an APC (that is a separate $1350 fee), or anything to do with colour and page charges (which are also charged separately).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Robert<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">goal-bounces@eprints.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Danny Kingsley<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>24 October 2014 01:08<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">goal@eprints.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[GOAL] Any examples of journals charging non refundable fee for peer review?<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I am passing on a question from a library in Australia:<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"I have recently become aware that some publishers and journals are charging authors a non-refundable fee to have their articles peer reviewed that is separate from the article processing charge. I hadn’t heard about this until one of our librarians mentioned it in passing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I was wondering if anyone else had come across this (or whether I’ve just had my head in the sand and not noticed!), and if so, whether it is common. Any examples would be great </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“ <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dr Danny Kingsley<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Visting Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">p: +61 413 101 197<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">w: <a href="http://cpas.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/danny-kingsley" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">http://cpas.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/danny-kingsley</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">t: @openaccess_oz<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></div></div></div></div><br><br><p align="center"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This message has been scanned for viruses by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://www.blackspider.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Websense Hosted Email Security</font></a></p>_______________________________________________<br>GOAL mailing list<br><a href="mailto:GOAL@eprints.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">GOAL@eprints.org</a><br><a href="http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>