phonon
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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Jan. 27 2007,20:13) | | Quote (phonon @ Jan. 27 2007,17:18) | | Quote (J-Dog @ Jan. 26 2007,20:35) | | ps: Phonon - Great Avatar! |
Thanks! But I have to thank whomever it was that made that picture. If it was you, Michael Tuite, then a million thanks! That thing is a masterpiece.
| Quote (jeannot @ Jan. 27 2007,06:43) | Yes, they do.
It's something like $2000 to have a paper published in PLoS Biology, I heard. |
Yikes! Someone also told me, and I don't know if this is true, that it costs $1-2k to publish is some medical journals that still charge subscription fees. I couldn't believe it, but I'm sure it's true. (That last sentence was for everyone at UD and OE.) |
For what it's worth, I've been published in linguistics journals several times, and I've never heard of a linguistics journal where you had to pay to be published. Until today, I'd never heard of any academic journal that worked that way.
For the record, I subscribe to two academic linguistic journals -- one costs $45 a year, the other $55. Doesn't seem too bad to me, especially since they're partly tax deductible. I used to subscribe to Language as well, but I quit subscribing after I filed my diss, since once I lost my student discount, my subscription tripled. But if I need an article in it, my local UC library has it -- I only have to wander in and copy it. A dime per page.
This doesn't feel to me like a cabal of academics are trying to hide scientific findings by artificially trying to keep journal prices high. Most academic journals I'm aware of barely make ends meet. |
I suppose, though, that the money to publish has to come from somewhere. If people want open-access journals, the authors will have to pay. I've only published a few papers so far. One was in Applied Physics Letters. What's interesting about them is that they have the option of open-access. The authors can choose to pay $1800 for their paper to be open access. I wonder how many authors opt for that route. :)
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