Re: Rewarding reviewers

["Joseph Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

This of course would increase costs, which would be reflected in 
pricing, which will result in cries of the outrages of 
publishers, which will inspire more activity in the area of open 
access and author's rights, which will increase costs, which will 
be reflected in pricing . . . .

Joe Esposito


On 3/26/08, Mark Funk <mefunk@med.cornell.edu> wrote:
> The editorial in the March issue of Nature Nanotechnology (3#3,
>  2008, p,119: "Who'd be a referee?") talks about the efforts that
>  journal reviewers put in: the average review takes about 8.6
>  hours and is completed within 3-4 weeks, The last two paragraphs
>  talk about changes in publishing, particularly open access. The
>  last sentence caught my eye:
>
>  "For a fee, some publishers (but not Nature Publishing Group) are
>  willing to make a paper open access, but authors of such papers
>  would certainly be justified in asking to have the fees waived in
>  return for refereeing."
>
>  Does any hybrid OA publisher reward their reviewers with waiving
>  OA fees? It seems like the least they could do.
>
>  Mark Funk
>  Head, Resource Management - Collections
>  Weill Cornell Medical Library
>  New York, NY 10065-4805
>  mefunk@med.cornell.edu