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They're called "page charges", they are absolutely real, and yeah, they're often like $100 to $150 per article page, plus extras. Here's the price quote for the
by mechanical_fish 18y ago
They're called "page charges", they are absolutely real, and yeah, they're often like $100 to $150 per article page, plus extras. Here's the price quote for the Journal of Dairy Science (which just won the Google lottery and is being rewarded with a link):
http://jds.fass.org/misc/ifora.shtml http://jds.fass.org/misc/ifora.shtml
- robg 18y agoForgot to mention that for the privilege you also give up publication rights. So, let's review: You pay to publish. They charge outrageous fees for access. You retain the copyright, they retain the publication rights. To be fair, I can't imagine their business model is making anyone rich. They pay professional editors and they pump out alot of PR that's good for science. But the original complaint - access on old manuscripts - is very valid.
- michael_nielsen 18y agoThe largest journal company, Elsevier, made about 1.5 billion in profit last year, on about 5 billion in revenue. Not bad.
- robg 18y agoWow - link? Are they publicly traded?
- michael_nielsen 18y agoI dug this out of Reed-Elsevier's last financial report, for a book I'm writing. Reed-Elsevier is Elsevier's parent company, and is publicly traded. I don't have the reference immediately to hand (found it several months back), but I started with Google. It took me quite a bit of time to track down.
- razzmataz 18y agoIsn't Springer-Verlag a part of that publishing empire?
- michael_nielsen 18y agoNo, Springer-Verlag is a separate journal publisher.