RE: Calculating the Cost per Article in the Current

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

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Anthony is right, there are European journals that levy page charges -
The EMBO Journals springs to mind from my experience ('For papers
exceeding 6 printed pages, a per page fee of �125/$200 will be charged
to the authors upon publication of the manuscript.')

But as there will be few (no?) institutions where all the authors
exclusively publish in European titles or in US titles I'm not sure how
this is relevant to the total cost to an institution.  Europeans are
paying page charges to publish in US titles, and Americans are
publishing in European titles, what we need is the average payment per
article.

Best wishes

David 

David C Prosser PhD
Director, SPARC Europe
E-mail:  david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony
Watkinson
Sent: 11 January 2005 23:28
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Subject: Re: Calculating the Cost per Article in the Current
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I am not sure if the point has been made that page charges are very much
a US device. I am sure that there must be journals from Europe and
elsewhere that levy page charges but I have never come across one and 
certainly have never published one in thirty years.

Anthony Watkinson