Hi Rupal

The Elsevier journal title we had that started my investigation was Journal of Financial Intermediation, which charges a US$400 submission fee. My colleague did contact Elsevier to ask if we could be given a list of the titles which are charging these fees, and if there was any discount as we subscribe to ScienceDirect (in the way that we are receiving APC discounted offers from publishers moving towards the publish and read models), but she was told Elsevier could not provide a list and there was no negotiation on the pricing.

This seems to be mostly affecting business titles for some reason. Has there been a change in policy around business and economics titles?

Thanks you

Hannah

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On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 12:01, Malde, Rupal (ELS-HBE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Update, it looks like 3 journals, not 2 are trying this out.

Rupal

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Thanks to those that have sent on information. Of the 2500 plus journals published at Elsevier, I see from what you have been posting that 2 journals are doing an experiment on a different method of submissions.

Rupal

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Rupal Malde (and list members) - you might be interested to see that Elsevier's 'Journal of Corporate Finance' appears to charge a non-refundable submission fee of $300, regardless of whether the article gets as far as peer-review (and a further $270 for the revised version post-review).

I assumed that Elsevier's site had been hacked or something, and that it was a predatory journal masquerading as an Elsevier journal, but after navigating to the title through different routes to Elsevier webpages one still ends up with the submission fee contained within the 'Guide for Authors' online for this particular title:

Journal of Corporate Finance - home page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-corporate-finance/

Author's guide online: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-corporate-finance/0929-1199/guide-for-authors

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Submission Fees

Each new submission must be accompanied by a submission fee of US$ 300.00 and the revision must be accompanied by a submission fee of US$ 270.00. The submission fee applies to every round, unless waived by the Publisher. Submissions will only be considered after payment of the submission fee via SubmissionStart. Submission fee is non-refundable and a paper may be rejected by the Editors without being sent for review, should a paper be inconsistent with the Aims and Scope of the Journal as set out on the Journal website, or not adhere to the style requirements as outlined in the Guide for Authors. The submission fees are used to support journal related activities

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Journal Policy Statement

In the first stage, at least one editor must decide that a paper should go to a reviewer. The number of submissions to the JCF has increased dramatically and we do not have the resources in terms of the editor's and, most importantly, reviewer's time to review all papers.

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... If a paper is rejected in the first stage without a review, the author will be charged. We will pay our reviewers $50 for each review. However, please note that the payment is on a personal title and not transferable to an organization. Those reviewers who are not able to receive the payment on a personal level are kindly requested to waive it....

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Note: When I clicked on the link to ‘SubmissionStart’ [my emboldening above] the URL was blocked by our filtering software which said it was insecure and hacked.

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Hi Hannah,

Interesting question. I wonder if we could have a chat about over the phone as I am a little concerned that the journals you mention might be "predatory journals". I'd also be interested to find out which journals you are talking about. Elsevier, in most cases, does not charge these so called "fees" but does charge APCs. As far as I'm aware Elsevier does not charge for submission only and therefore my worry is that these might be journals might be predatory.

Kind regards

Rupal

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Hello all

At University of Portsmouth Library we have recently had a number of queries from academics about journal submission fees - not APC payments, but fees just to submit their papers and have them peer reviewed. Does anyone know if there is an online list of journal which charge these fees, either as a whole or publisher specific? I hadn't heard of these fees before, and so far we have only identified a few journal titles which charge this (mostly Elsevier titles so far), but we have been asked if it is possible to provide details of which journals will ask for submission fees, to go alongside the page on our website outlining our current APC offers and deals.

Thank you in advance

Hannah

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