Re: Money for OA; was, RE: fascinating question

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

Most of the costs of publishing are not to do with collecting the money 
which covers the costs.

All the statistics (King, Mabe) show that the average number of papers per
author has remained constant over very many years.  I suspect that
'salami-slicing' is a myth.

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>
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Subject: RE: Money for OA; was, RE: fascinating question

> I do not know why Sally said OA, as her comment is equally true for the
> conventional system. Even the possibility of eliminating the need for
> increases by greater efficiency is true for both systems.
>
> As Sally notices, OA might have an influence on the flow of papers were
> reduced.  In a paid-on-behalf-of-the-author OA Journal mode, authors (or
> their funders or whoever subsidizes them) may see the obvious economic
> advantages of not publishing multiple small papers on the same subject.
>
> Dr. David Goodman
> Associate Professor
> Palmer School of Library and Information Science
> Long Island University
> dgoodman@liu.edu