Re: "Overlay Journals" Over Again...

[Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>]

The Open Access Directory (OAD) page on "OA journal business 
models" has a couple of examples of OA journals charging 
submission fees, 
<http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models>

It welcomes other examples.  OAD is a wiki; editing requires 
registration, but registration is free and easy.

Peter Suber

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At 11:15 PM 7/2/2009, Carol Hutchins wrote:
> Society for Neuroscience has this:
> 
> "The Journal of Neuroscience Submission Fee & Payment Policy
> 
> A submission fee of $100 must be paid for all new or resubmitted
> Regular Manuscripts and Brief Communications.  No submission fee
> is required for features (Journal Clubs, Commentaries, etc.). The
> submission fee covers a portion of the costs associated with peer
> review."
> 
> ... am not aware of any others.
> 
> Carol Hutchins
> 
> 
> Jan Velterop wrote:
> 
> >  The situation is this:
> > 
> >  1) researchers HAVE to publish and HAVE to have their
> >  publications  peer-reviewed;
> 
> >  2) existing systems (OA-author-paid as well subscriptions) ONLY
> >  pay  for PUBLISHED articles.
> > 
> >  So the real problem is this: in neither case is the organization
> >  of  peer review per se paid for. Those who argue that it is,
> >  place the  entire burden of cost exclusively on the PUBLISHED
> >  papers.
> > 
> >  What is needed is a system such as, say, your diving test. You
> >  pay  for the test, whether you pass or not. Translated to
> >  publications, a  fee at submission is what we need, for which
> >  peer-review is  organized. And this fee should be non-refundable,
> >  whether the article  is accepted for publication or not.
> > 
> >  Where is the courageous and/or visionary 'publisher' (just using
> >  a  familiar term that should probably be changed into 'assessment
> >  organization' or pithier equivalent) who starts a system like
> >  that?
> > 
> >  Jan Velterop