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

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

And this is exactly what SciELO is doing (plus building 
independent metrics), as a forthcoming article by Abel Packer in 
the Canadian Journal of Higher Education reveals. The cost of 
SciELO articles should put every commercial publisher to shame... 
SciELO, for those who do not know, publishes over 600 journals in 
open access. It uses OJS.

And if the argument is that this is due to lower salaries in 
Brazil, then fear delocalization. :-)

Perhaps SciELO should set up a (costly) consultancy for 
Elsevier...

Jean-Claude Guedon


Joseph Esposito wrote:

> This topic has been talked to death on this list.  I wrote 
> about this several years ago in FirstMonday.org:
>
> http://j.mp/aCVZ4s
>
> Briefly, few peer reviewers are paid, but the management of the
> system of peer review is time-consuming and costly.  If anyone
> thinks they can do it for less money than the incumbents do now,
> I suggest you put out a consulting shingle, because organizations
> like Elsevier, Springer, AMA, ACS, etc. will pay handsomely for
> anything that will reduce these expenses.
>
> Having said this, i have no dog in this hunt.  If anyone wants to
> replicate the peer review capabilities of the incumbents AND have
> open access AND have lower costs, go right ahead.

> Joe Esposito