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

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

Nope, Penn State Press pays no support for editorial offices or 
stipends for editors. All that we provide is, for a few journals, 
copyediting and for all letterhead stationary if they desire it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "course releases." If you mean 
release time for faculty from teaching courses so that they can 
dedicate the time to journal editing, that is not within the 
Press's power to effect. Journal editors need to negotiate 
release time with their own department heads. The Press plays no 
role in these negotiations, direct or indirect.

Since clearly university presses differ in these respects, I 
suggest that you put together a short survey for journal managers 
to fill out on the AAUP listserv for journal managers. Then we'll 
have data that can serve as the basis for making statements.


> 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
> http://www.anthrosource.net
>
> > 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