>>I think the price-to-value ratio of their service is quite good. One almost wishes a similar service for scientific papers exists along the lines of a "paid

>>I think the price-to-value ratio of their service is quite good. One almost wishes a similar service for scientific papers exists along the lines of a "paid dry-run peer review". Unfortunately this probably wouldn't take away from the need/burden of unpaid paper refeering for journals, but at least it's an idea to make another revenue stream available to staff doing the actual work that doesn't get co-opted by Elsevier or their non-open access ilk.