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> So the publishing house (likely) recoups their costs of editing and publication with the publication fee paid by the scientist. This is not universally true,
by IanCal 9y ago
> So the publishing house (likely) recoups their costs of editing and publication with the publication fee paid by the scientist.
This is not universally true, I just checked Nature Genetics (as it was mentioned before) and it appears there are no publication fees unless you have colour figures.
Do you have any statistics on this? I can only quickly find APC data for open access.
- FTA 9y agoThough the charts don't break it down by each journal specifically, here's a decent survey of the prices from a few years ago: http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676 http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie...