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> "Elsevier, based in Amsterdam, says that the APCs cover the costs associated with publishing an article in an open-access journal, including editorial and pee
by photochemsyn 4y ago
> "Elsevier, based in Amsterdam, says that the APCs cover the costs associated with publishing an article in an open-access journal, including editorial and peer-review services, copyediting, typesetting, archiving, indexing, marketing and administrative costs."
Taking Elsevier claims at face value is a bad idea, but an obvious solution would be make the authors responsible for all of the above. Which is basically the arxiv publishing model:
https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html
- alecco 4y agoI think a foundation with open accounting and paid reviewers would be a better trade-off.
- crote 4y agoThe arxiv publishing model does not do peer review, though. The papers on there aren't validated beyond a very cursory look into whether it is basically spam or not.
- cpncrunch 4y agoYou can look at their financial results. Net profit margin is 19%: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/REN:AMS https://www.google.com/finance/quote/REN:AMS
- ska 4y agoarxiv is a pre-print model, which is super useful but not the same thing.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago"copyediting and typesetting"? Ah, that would be where they take your article, already formatted using the LaTeX template they made available, and completely change the formatting so that all the formulae and all the tables become unreadable. In CS you get this service for free. Neuroscientists have to pay for the privilege? Wow.