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> reasonable to me to pay a small one-time publication fee for an open access journal, to cover clerical and typesetting work In my experience, the author type
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> reasonable to me to pay a small one-time publication fee for an open access journal, to cover clerical and typesetting work
In my experience, the author typesets themselves anyway - the journal doesn’t do this. And the clerical work is done by community volunteers - the journal doesn’t do that either.
- krastanov 5y agoIn my experience with open access journals, if I am expected to typeset, I need to pay around 300$ for publication. If the journal does their typesetting, I pay on the order of thousands. Steep, but not unreasonable. And waivers exist.
- chrisseaton 5y agoDon't you just use a LaTeX template? I'm not really sure what typesetting there is to do beyond that? Whenever I publish a paper, I just send them a finished PDF. There's nothing more done with it than that I believe.
- krastanov 5y agoLaTeX on its own does not magically solve all layout issues, especially if the exact placement of figures is pedagogically important or if the math equations are complicated. Usually you would end with 20ish compilation warnings (not errors) on a first draft. I think it is fine for a scientist to not bother with those, but I also think it is important for them to be fixed by someone in the final product. You can argue that I am snobish about typesetting, but that is different from saying that good typesetting does not involve an effort. Also, I have never sent a PDF for publication. I always send source files. I do not know of journals that would accept a PDF (except for early peer review).