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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3333FF">I don’t think this quite addresses your question, but I note that PNAS charges an $1800 “publication fee”. See
<a href="http://www.pnas.org/site/authors/fees.xhtml">http://www.pnas.org/site/authors/fees.xhtml</a> . 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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Danny Kingsley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 October 2014 01:08<br>
<b>To:</b> goal@eprints.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Any examples of journals charging non refundable fee for peer review?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I am passing on a question from a library in Australia:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">"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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">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:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">“ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dr Danny Kingsley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Visting Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">p: +61 413 101 197<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">w: <a href="http://cpas.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/danny-kingsley"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">http://cpas.anu.edu.au/about-us/people/danny-kingsley</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">t: @openaccess_oz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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