Dear Gavin:
It is unfortunate that the journal has to charge such an amount, but
we must accept the fact that costs will have to be covered in one way
or another.
Some journals published from academic societies require all the
co-authors to be members of the society. In addition to it, extra
charge for publishing the paper may be required.
In one of professional societies that I belong, we started a
discussion of increasing the membership fee. A substantial portion of
the budget is spent on printing and sending them to the members, and
I put forth an idea of issuing the journal electronically only, with
password protection for a limited time period (one year?).
Satoshi Kose, Professor
Graduate School of Design
Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
Hamamatsu, Japan
At 11:12 08/04/06, Gavin Melles wrote:
>Hi Chris, Teena and others
>
>Actually, I had a personal experience of submitting something to BioMedCent=
>ral in Medical Education, with a paper I had to eventually withdraw (and =
>send elsewhere) because they wanted to charge me ~$1000 for the privilege =
>of reviewing it since my institution was not subscribed to the journal. =
>I've seen other journals also charge directly. No I may be behind the =
>times, but I'm not prepared to pay to have my work reviewed and published =
>in that sense - it either makes the peer review or not. The more egenral =
>poiont is that this $$$ issues is a bit of a chestnut I'd like opened up a =
>bit.
>
>Dr Gavin Melles
>Research Fellow, Faculty of Design
>Swinburne University of Technology
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