Page Charges

PNAS depends, in part, on the payment of page charges for its operation. Payment of the page charge of $70 per printed page will be assessed from all authors who have funds available for that purpose. Payment of $200 per article will be assessed for Supporting Information. Authors of research articles may pay a surcharge of $1,000 to make their paper freely available through the PNAS open access option. If your institution has a 2006 Site License, the open access surcharge is $750. All articles are free online after 6 months. Articles are accepted or rejected for publication and published solely on the basis of merit.
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J. Biol. Chem. -- Accepted manuscripts will be published with the implicit understanding that the author(s) will pay a $75 charge per page. Under exceptional circumstances ... author(s) may apply ... for a grant-in-aid ...
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Eugene Garfield Essays on Refereeing and Peer Review

http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/peerreview.html

Open Access Archives and Commercial STM Publishers

Open Access Archives and STM Publishers

One wonders when commercial publishers might re-think their marketing strategies and recognize that their library subscribers deserve some compensation for years of annual price increases that far exceed inflation (for either CPI or pagination). The cumulative effect of decades of these often questionable price increases is exemplified by an analysis of the 2004 subscription costs, pagination, and cost/page.

Journal Title (publisher/volume) 2004 $ 2004 pp 2004 $/p

J. Electrochem. Soc. (ECS-v.151) $715 5825 $0.12
J. Solid State Electrochem. (Sp-v.9) $585 913 $0.64
Electrochimica Acta (P/Els-v.49) $4215 5260 $0.80
Electroanalysis (W/VCH-v.16) $2428 2094 $1.16
J. Applied Electrochem. (Kl-v.34) $2029 1291 $1.57
J. Electroanal. Chem. (Els-v.560-572) $9469 4267 $2.26

Factoring in the ISI Impact Factors (IP) and normalization of the cost/page/IP values for each commercial journal against the Journal of the Electrochemical Society (JES) produces some very startling results. These normalized values (2004N$/p/IP) are possibly a measure of the cost-effectiveness of each journal compared with JES.

Journal title - 2004 ISI/IP 2004$/p/IP 2004N$/p/IP
J. Electrochem. Soc. - 2.36 0.05 1.0
Electrochimica Acta - 2.34 0.34 6.8
Electroanalysis - 2.04 0.57 11.4
J. Solid State Electrochem. - 0.98 0.65 13.0
J. Electroanal. Chem. - 2.29 0.99 19.8
J. Applied Electrochem. - 0.98 1.60 32.0

While the Electrochemical Society's JES is somewhat unique in its very reasonable cost/page, they are certainly not publishing this journal at a loss. The normalized values of the 2004 cost/page/IP indicate that the J. Electrochem. Soc. is more cost effective than the J. Applied Electrochem. by a factor of 32. Alternatively, looking simply at the difference in the $cost/page data suggests that, if published by a society, J. Electroanal. Chem. could be priced at $512/year instead of $9649.

Given these presumably handsome profits, would it be unreasonable to suggest that commercial publishers consider making their online archives freely available thru an equivalent of PubMed Central?

One can only imagine the enormous positive public relations that the first commercial publisher will receive for this small token of appreciation to the library and research community ... and that this might encourage others to follow suit. This would also have the beneficial effect of freeing up funds for the learned society journal back files, which when their capital costs are met could also be made freely available. Thus, with a little publisher cooperation, an Open Access environment for virtually all journal articles published more than ten years ago would be a reality.

P.S. Publishers should also strongly consider offering RSS feeds, and MARC records for new online books in addition to currently offered e-mail announcements.

SPARC Open Access Programs web site

Open Access Programs web site

SPARC has launched a Web page (https://db.arl.org/oap) on which librarians, faculty and administrators can share the concept and execution of open access programs held at their universities. On this page, SPARC members and other can submit information about the open access programs on their campus and browse information about other institutions’ efforts. The site also contains information on institutional repositories and scholarly communication programs in general. Much of the information on the site was originally gathered by Rebecca Kemp, Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian at UNC Wilmington. Contributions are encouraged.

MDPI Open and non-Open Access

Open Access (free subscription for readers) and non-Open Access (free publication for authors)

Open Access publishing is supported by authors and their institutes. Open Access publication fees are 500 EUR / 600 USD / 778 CHF per paper (compare to Springer's Open Access publishing fees of 3,000 USD, see http://www.springeronline.com/openchoice) regardless of the length of the paper, because we wish to encourage publication of long papers with complete results and full experimental or computational details. Open Access papers are typically published online more rapidly. They have higher publicity because they are free to read and the full text is searchable on the Internet and they are more quickly and easily added into many indexing databases. The instructions for transfer of donated funds are at the http://www.mdpi.org/transfer.htm website.

Waiver of publication fees: In order to encourage publication of high quality papers, we will continue to waive publication fees with Open Access for those papers of high quality recommended by referees or editors and for papers from those who have published high impact factor papers in our journals.

Non-Open Access publishing is free of charge for authors. They have an absolute link leading to a blocked (password protected) folder on the mdpi.org server. Thus, we will provide those authors who do not wish to support Open Access the choice of doing so, knowing that their papers will only be available to paid subscribers
[http://www.mdpi.org/subs.htm], who will continue to have full access. If there are 10 times of pay-per-view for a non-Open Access paper, it will become Open Access.


Recently we published an editorial "Open Access and Author's Open Choice".
[http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/html/10060583.htm]