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

[<jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca>]

We will leave aside the editors' honoraria about which, 
incidentally, very little is known publicly, but is obviously a 
good way for publishers to create a power system with elite 
scientists.

I have no idea about the internal argument used at Elsevier or 
elsewhere to justify paying for online editorial system, etc. but 
I am sure it is not to increase costs, or, if it does increase 
costs, there are other factors weighing in. Companies, by the 
way, are obsessed about costs onlyto the extent that it affects 
profits, and this over a certain time horizon.

I also love the phrase "it is my understanding that"... and then 
an assertion without proof. Let us go back to ciELO once more - 
sorry to be repetitive - as this organization publishes mainly 
scientific journals, many of which in the biomedical field. I 
guess OJS is good enough for them. Si it ought to be good enough 
for many other people as well, especially if they try to save 
costs.

Jean-Claude Guedon


Anthony Watkinson wrote:

> Is Professor Guedon really suggesting that publishers who spend a
> lot of money on online editorial systems, on editor honoraria, on
> editorial back-up costs and on editorial board meetings are
> really doing so because they want to increase their costs? The
> software he mentions may well work for small journals in the
> humanities but it is my understanding that it does not satisfy
> editors of biomedical journals or their authors:.

> Anthony