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Well, I much more like the question: Should authors pay for their publications? There is a common pun: As a scientist, you pay two times for an article: The one
by ktpsns 6y ago
Well, I much more like the question: Should authors pay for their publications? There is a common pun: As a scientist, you pay two times for an article: The one time you publish, and the other time when you subscribe to read your published article. And this is only to access the article as a PDF in the web. There is no print copy or so involved in that payment.
Notorious XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2085/ https://xkcd.com/2085/
- michaelmior 6y agoThis depends on the field. I have never paid to publish and I doubt I ever would. (This does not count however the conference expenses typically required of an author to present their paper. But attending a conference has significant benefit to me personally, so I don't really see it as a direct cost of publication.)
- ta988 6y agoYou usually have three models: - pay for publish and read: big tabloid journals, large medical maf... associations. Cost to publish is usually below $1000, cost to read is $5-$20 a page - pay for read, free to publish: most journals from the big publishers. Cost is between $5 to $20 a page. - pay to publish, free to read: the model of most Open Access journals. Some big publishers are proposing that as an option as well. Cost of that option is usually $3000 to $5000 per article.