Jeffrey in the comment section to your post Ahmed Hindawi points out that the average revenue per paper published by Hindawi is about $600. For people like Elsevier it is in excess of $4000 per paper. I think it is clear which publisher is taking (significantly) more money out of the system.
David On 3 Oct 2013, at 20:31, Beall, Jeffrey wrote: > Heather: > > I’ve documented that Hindawi’s profit margin is higher than Elsevier’s. So, I > am correct in assuming that you include Hindawi in your advice below, no? > Also, it’s been revealed that a number of the higher ups at PLOS are drawing > salaries of over a quarter-million dollars a year, and one was even drawing a > salary of over a half-million dollars. It appears that the money is just > moving from one set of publishers to another. > > Thanks, > > Jeffrey Beall > > From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of > Heather Morrison > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 11:43 AM > To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Subject: [GOAL] Scholars jobs not publisher profits > > My reaction to the EBSCO report on expected ongoing high price increases by > some in the scholarly publishing sector at the same time that academics at my > alma mater have been asked to consider voluntary severance has been posted to > my blog: > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/10/scholars-lets-keep-our-jobs-and-ditch.html > > My conclusion: > > It is time for scholars, university administrators and research funders to > wake up and realize that creation of new knowledge is done by researchers, > not publishers. Don't give up your job or or let your colleagues give up > theirs without demanding that the large commercial scholarly publishers give > up their 30-40% profit margins. > > best, > > -- > Dr. Heather Morrison > Assistant Professor > École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies > University of Ottawa > > http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html > heather.morri...@uottawa.ca > > ALA Accreditation site visit scheduled for 30 Sept-1 Oct 2013 / > Visite du comité externe pour l'accréditation par l'ALA est prévu le 30 > sept-1 oct 2013 > > http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/accreditation.html > http://www.esi.uottawa.ca/accreditation.html > > > > <ATT00001..txt>
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