quoting Haas At least one of the North American bird journals asks that if you don't > have grant funds to cover page charges that each author chip in at > least $50 personally to help offset publication costs, and this seems > quite reasonable to me"
A reasonable sum of money, as long as one is not in a developing country! This raises a related issue, in that the mainstream international journals include research from authors belonging to the developed world. Third world researchers cannot afford to publish in these journals. At the same time, obscure national journals from third world countries do not feature in any database search as they may not be online. Quite often it is difficult to even know of work being carried out in africa, asia and latin america by local universities, if results were published in such journals, which feature work of similar quality, but are unknown outside their respective countries. regards, amartya
