ERRATA In the Nature/VOL 140/26 April 2001/ article (pp 1024-1025):
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html the following passage contains some errors: "The minimum cost of refereeing has been estimated as $500 per accepted article by the American Institute of Physics (http://documents.cern.ch/archive/electronic/other/agenda/a01193/a01193s4t8/transparencies/Doyle.ppt) but that figure almost certainly has inessential costs wrapped into it (for example, the creation of the publisher's PDF). I think that the true figure for peer-review implementation alone across all refereed journals probably averages closer to $200 per article, or even lower. Hence, quality-control costs account for only 10% of the collective tolls actually being paid per article." (1) The correct affiliation for Mark Doyle should be the American Physical Society (APS), not the American Institute of Physics (AIP). (2) A better URL for the estimate instead of the one listed is: http://documents.cern.ch/archive/electronic/other/agenda/a01193/a01193s5t11/transparencies/ The estimate is a summary from the Geneva OAI Meeting; it is not an official estimate by the APS. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad [email protected] Professor of Cognitive Science [email protected] Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing free access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html You may join the list at the site above. Discussion can be posted to: [email protected]
