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Simon P J Batterbury wrote: > 5) A further issue is author costs. 'Open' journals are increasingly charging authors, since they have no subscribers. J of Maps charges 50 quid per article, and Environmental Research letters charges US$1900 unless you can claim an exception. One in my field, Ecology & Society http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/ , charges "US$750 for the first 5000 words and US$100 for every 1000 words thereafter", which means I won't be submitting anything there at the moment! This also raises issues about how to respond to/critique an article in a journal, and the possibilities for debate to take place within a journal's (virtual) pages. Anecdotally, I know of at least one instance where researchers were put off from submitting a response to a journal article (in another discipline, with higher author costs) because it would have been extremely expensive to do so. Jon