RE: Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told

["Nawin Gupta" <nawin@nawingupta.com>]

Yes, peer reviewers are rarely paid, but there are significant 
costs involved in facilitating and managing the peer review 
process, and addressing/incorporating comments of reviewers 
during revision cycles (these costs are higher for journals with 
a double-blind peer-review).  Also, lower the acceptance rate, 
higher the cost per accepted paper as each rejected paper has a 
cost associated with it.  For a journal with acceptance rate of 
10%, $100 per submitted article review cost becomes $1,000 per 
published article.

Nawin Gupta
INFORMED PUBLISHING SOLUTIONS, INC.
Phone +1 773-623-9199 or +1 773-685-2007
nawin@nawingupta.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Feinman
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 4:10 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told

What is the relation between cost and peer review?  I thought peer
reviewers are not paid.

Richard David Feinman
Professor of Cell Biology
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
(718) 871-1374
FAX: (718) 270-3316

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