Pay for peers (Re: Costs of publishing a journal)

[Rick Anderson <rick.anderson@utah.edu>]

> For scholarly journals, I understand the standard practice is 
> NOT to pay peer reviewers at all. I would be interested in 
> hearing from other publishers on this list if any of them know 
> of journals for which peer reviewers receive payment, in cash 
> or in kind (free subscription?).

I've done peer review for a number of scholarly journals, and the 
only one that has offered me anything like compensation is 
Elsevier.  I get 30 days of free access to Scopus every time I 
review a paper for them -- though it's apparently intended mainly 
as a help to the reviewing process, not as a sweetener to the 
invitation.

-- 
Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dir. for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library
Univ. of Utah
rick.anderson@utah.edu