of BioMedCentral's open access article
processing charges
Dear all,
I completely agree with Bo-Christer, but I want to adress another problem with
BMC. As far as I can see it - please correct me if I´m wrong - BMC does not
mark rejected submission as such. If you have an institutional membership
Dear all,
I completely agree with Bo-Christer, but I want to adress another
problem with BMC. As far as I can see it - please correct me if I´m
wrong - BMC does not mark rejected submission as such. If you have an
institutional membership in order to to get a lean workflow for your
authors
)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: The dramatic growth of BioMedCentral's open access article
processing charges
Hi all,
An interesting discussion. My perspective is not a moral one. The APC charged
should as far as possible reflect the quality and services of the journal. The
current full OA market (for APC
Interesting numbers!
Have you investigated if some of this increase could be explained by an
increased rejection rate? - this would be an acceptable explanation, in my
opinion.
The suspicion is, of course, that this could be one result of e.g. the RCUK OA
policy, which creates a less
Jan Erik, Heather,
There are a number of factors that can be at play here. I think it's
reasonable to suspect that as a journal becomes more established - becoming
better known, more trusted and potentially having greater kudos - that
submission rates increase, and that may well impact on
hi Jan,
Good question! No, I have not looked into whether BMC's rejection rates have
increased.
Whether this would be an acceptable reason for increasing prices at all, or at
a particular rate, is a different question.
For example, unlike a print-based journal with size constraints imposed by
Hi all,
An interesting discussion. My perspective is not a moral one. The APC
charged should as far as possible reflect the quality and services of
the journal. The current full OA market (for APC journals) is a
relatively competive microeconomic market where customers(=authors)
decide where
A big flaw in the way journals are financially sustained — true for Article
Processing Charges (APCs) of OA journals as well as for subscriptions to
pay-walled journals — is that the entire cost of publication is loaded solely
on the published articles. That may seem logical, but a large
Bo-Christer,
I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on the issue of costs due to higher
rejection rates, or rather the non-existent costs of the process around peer
review (which are everything but). It depends on the journal. In some cases,
all that work is done outside the purview of the
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Jan Velterop velte...@gmail.com wrote:
A big flaw in the way journals are financially sustained -- true for
Article Processing Charges (APCs) of OA journals as well as for
subscriptions to pay-walled journals -- is that the entire cost of
publication is loaded
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