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" Nature's internal costs of publishing run at £20,000–30,000 (US$31,000–47,000) per paper, an extremely high charge to load onto authors or funders rather than
by 31reasons 12y ago
" Nature's internal costs of publishing run at £20,000–30,000 (US$31,000–47,000) per paper, an extremely high charge to load onto authors or funders rather than spread over subscribers."
What in the digital world would make it so expensive to publish content ?
- peteretep 12y agoPaid editorial and peer review? Also, if a print-copy is being produced, someone has to type-set it, even if there's also a digital copy.
- s0rce 12y agoPeer review is not paid. I assume costs are for the staff editors (PhDs), copy editors, type setters, print and distribution costs, etc. Source: I have published in nature
- skosuri 12y agoIt's mostly the high editorial costs. Especially for the academic glamour journals, they are only accepting a small percentage of the manuscripts that come their way. It's a little silly though; they still charge hundreds to thousands of dollars to publish for "color figures" and other article processing charges despite being closed access. My papers in NPG journals often cost at or near publishing in open access ones.
- biehl 12y agoWaste and incompetence unchecked by competetion or regulation.
- TheOtherHobbes 12y ago>What in the digital world would make it so expensive to publish content ? Profiteering and status. You're paying for access to the brand.
- sre_ops 12y agoProduction You know, copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, etc. What makes the garbage that originally shows up actually readable.