Dekker, Jasja wrote: > Dear all, > > So why do we keep submitting papers to this group of journals? Are page > charges so far spread that fitting, but free-of-charge journals are so > rare? I think the scientific community, being both primary producer and > consumer of the journals, has more power than it thinks! > I don't think the ESA is going to like you writing _that_ on one of its newsgroups!
Seriously, the problem is that journals have to be paid for somehow. I did see a quote that a paper in an online journal costs $100 to publish. That can only be reduced by people working for free: I'm part of the editorial board of an online journal (Journal of Negative Results - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: www.jnr-eeb.org) and we don't charge for submissions or downloading. But we can only do that because of goodwill from several sides (in particular the managing editor). > I hope you all will forgive me for starting again on copyright law, BUT: > does transfering copyright to the journal mean we can not offer our own > papers on personal websites? > Alas, in some cases yes. We should give the ESA its due here for allowing authors to put their papers on the web. Bob -- Bob O'Hara Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hllstrmin katu 2b) FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Finland Telephone: +358-9-191 51479 Mobile: +358 50 599 0540 Fax: +358-9-191 51400 WWW: http://www.RNI.Helsinki.FI/~boh/ Journal of Negative Results - EEB: http://www.jnr-eeb.org
