Re: Post Brussels : Elsevier and Australian STM debate 'sprouts'

[Rebecca Simon <rebecca.simon@ucpress.edu>]

Sandy, perhaps you aren't factoring in course releases and 
subsidies paid to editorial offices? I would be surprised if Penn 
State weren't providing support in some manner - I believe that 
many university presses actually do so. University of California 
Press, for example, provides a broad range of editorial support 
in a variety of forms for the journals we publish including 
editor's salaries, stipends, course releases and office support. 
This type of support from publishers has become increasingly 
important over the past decade as institutional support for 
editorial offices has diminished.

Rebecca Simon
Associate Director
University of California Press
and Director, Journals and Digital Publishing Division
http://www.ucpressjournals.com
http://caliber.ucpress.net
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> Frankly, Sandy, I don't think I would have put that into print. I
> don't know your journals program, but if something has economic
> value and I sat at, say, Blackwell or Sage (not to mention MIT or
> Chicago), I would take your statement as an opportunity to go
> poaching.
>
> Joe Esposito
>
> On 2/28/07, Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu> wrote:
> > I cannot claim to know how commercial or society publishers
> > compensate editors of their journals, but I can tell you that
> > Penn State Press pays not a cent to any of the editors of its 11
> > journals-and I suspect we are not alone among university press
> > journal publishers.
> >
> > Sandy Thatcher
> > Penn State University Press