On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Marvin wrote: > > It is researchers who gather, interpret, > > write and package their research reports. The only thing they cannot do > > for themselves is the Quality-Control and its Certification (QCC). > > > These cost money to do well, do they not?
Which, the QCC? Yes, see below. What the researchers do? That too, but that's not what S/L/P pays for, so it is completely irrelevant. > If there is only self-archiving in who knows how many sites, there will be > chaos. That's the Santa Fe Convention is for: http://www.openarchives.org > > SLP - 70%(SLP) = QCC > I've seen many things said that I think are simplistic. I've been in charge > of the expenses of one journal recently. Have you? Anyone can invent > numbers. I'm not inventing them. They have been estimated by Andrew Odlyzko http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/eworld.html and confirmed (on the "70/30" thread earlier in this Forum) by Mark Doyle of APS. I have edited one (paper) journal for over 2 decades and an online-only one for over a decade. Stevan Harnad [email protected] Editor, Psycoloquy phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Department of Electronics and fax: +44 23-80 593-281 Computer Science http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/psyc University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM news:sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy Sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
