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What is the real cost of publishing in an open access online environment?

Heather Morrison in SCHOLCOMM list:

Sage Open has reduced their open access article processing fee to $99 per article. The announcement is posted here:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/press/2013/jan/24_jan.htm

This is not the first OA publisher to come out with prices in this range. PeerJ, established by Peter Binfield (formerly PLoS ONE), has open access fees on a lifetime membership basis starting from $99.

This raises some interesting questions. For example:

What is the real cost of publishing in an open access online environment? Sage OPEN and PeerJ are both commercial companies. If $99 is sufficient to cover the costs of coordinating peer review and publication, why would anyone pay even the $1,350 charged by PLoS ONE, never mind the $3,000 plus charged by some of the traditional publishers under hybrid arrangements?


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (24. Januar 2013). What is the real cost of publishing in an open access online environment? Archivalia. Abgerufen am 23. April 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/bko7


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