On 9/25/12 12:32 AM, George Herbert wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Richard Farmbrough
<rich...@farmbrough.co.uk> wrote:
On 24/09/2012 03:49, Risker wrote:
the costs of peer review
I have academics complaining to me that they don't get paid for peer review,
so I'm not sure what these costs are.
Someone has to edit the magazine, pre-accept papers, and handle the
peer reviews.
The actual organization of peer reviews generally isn't paid even at
for-profit journals, at least in my field. The editor-in-chief and
editorial board are usually responsible for finding and assigning
reviewers, and then making a decision based on their reviews, and those
aren't paid positions. There are indeed editing/layout costs at some
journals, though it varies widely. In computer science, the costs are
typically lower to nonexistent, because of an expectation that authors
will be able to deliver publication-ready PDFs, using LaTeX and a
template provided by the journal.
The two top journals these days in my field (artificial intelligence)
both run on fairly low budgets, one a rounding error away from $0, and
the other a modest nonprofit:
* http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/ -- donated server space from MIT, and a
completely volunteer editorial process
* http://jair.org/ -- nonprofit organization with a small budget (funded
by donations and grants) pays for server space and a small staff
-Mark
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