Re: Load balancing

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

Leaving aside questions of load balancing and the importance of avoiding
duplicate publication, it seems to me that redirecting papers where
possible just might bring efficiencies into the publishing process - the
kind of efficiencies that I hope will lead to journal price decreases.

My assumptions here are:

- authors will seek other publishing venues if an article is rejected

- there will be efficiencies if comments from the first submission are
passed along to subsequent reviewers and editors

- it would take less time working with the author to gain permission to
forward to another publication, than to reject the article outright

This would be easiest with large or cooperating publishing groups,
obviously.

Does this make any sense from the perspective of publishers?

cheers,

Heather Morrison


On 19-Nov-04, at 6:46 AM, Sally Morris ((ALPSP)) wrote:

> When I was an active publisher, we didn't do this for 'load balancing'
> but occasionally a paper which was not really suitable for one journal
> might be redirected (with the author's agreement) for consideration by
> another
>
> Sally Morris, Chief Executive
> Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
> E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org