Preston McAfee and I maintain a website http://www.journalprices.com/
that attempts to do something along these lines. We classify journals
in each field as
good values , intermediate values and bad values by comparing an
index based on price per article and price per citation with the median
The University of California is setting up a postprint series which is
intended to house published papers written by all scholars in the UC
system. In helping to set this up for my own department, I have been
looking into the permissions policies of a number of publishers that
publish in
be helpful if those publishers
who can not see their way to allow posting of recent pdf's would allow
them to be posted with a lag of, say a year, like MIT Press. There can't
be much gain in prohibiting posting of old articles. There ought to be
some room for negotiation here.
Ted Bergstrom
copy is an
exact replica of the published version?
Ted Bergstrom
Do the green light publishers send digital copies back to the authors?
[Some give the green light for the author to use the publisher's
PDF version, others only to use the author's own digital versioni.]
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