Elsevier Open Access Policy / new pricing model
From May 2006, Elsevier journals will be offering authors the option to pay a $3000 sponsorship fee to ensure that their article, already accepted for publication, is made freely available to non-subscribers via ScienceDirect.
These six physics journals are the first to offer the option:
Nuclear Physics A
Nuclear Physics B
Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
Physics Letters B
Astroparticle Physics
Thirty more journals across other fields such as Life and Health sciences also plan to offer this option in the next two months.
The fee excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges which are additional. Information about selecting this option is now available on the journal homepages at www.elsevier.com as well as Elsevier's author gateway site, authors.elsevier.com.
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Mark Chillingworth, Elsevier reviews its journal models, Information World Review, April 24, 2006.
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2154589/elsevier-reviews-journal-models
“What publishers have to avoid is what happened to computers: every year users expected a better product for a lower price,” (Karen Hunter)
Elsevier is assessing new pricing models which could see archive databases attached to journal subscriptions. The scientific publishing giant is collaborating with major libraries and believes there is demand for a return to title by title subscriptions with the added benefit of access to comprehensive databases. Elsevier senior VP Karen Hunter...believes that the information and publishing sector is in a period of unprecedented uncertainty. “How we make relevant information available and make a business case is not clear,” she said. Elsevier is assessing new models to understand what scientific users will pay for. “Publishers cannot give anything up,” she said of existing services, but also had to modernise and look for new services. “What publishers have to avoid is what happened to computers: every year users expected a better product for a lower price,” she said, referring to the decline of the PC market.
These six physics journals are the first to offer the option:
Nuclear Physics A
Nuclear Physics B
Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
Physics Letters B
Astroparticle Physics
Thirty more journals across other fields such as Life and Health sciences also plan to offer this option in the next two months.
The fee excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges which are additional. Information about selecting this option is now available on the journal homepages at www.elsevier.com
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Mark Chillingworth, Elsevier reviews its journal models, Information World Review, April 24, 2006.
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2154589/elsevier-reviews-journal-models
“What publishers have to avoid is what happened to computers: every year users expected a better product for a lower price,” (Karen Hunter)
Elsevier is assessing new pricing models which could see archive databases attached to journal subscriptions. The scientific publishing giant is collaborating with major libraries and believes there is demand for a return to title by title subscriptions with the added benefit of access to comprehensive databases. Elsevier senior VP Karen Hunter...believes that the information and publishing sector is in a period of unprecedented uncertainty. “How we make relevant information available and make a business case is not clear,” she said. Elsevier is assessing new models to understand what scientific users will pay for. “Publishers cannot give anything up,” she said of existing services, but also had to modernise and look for new services. “What publishers have to avoid is what happened to computers: every year users expected a better product for a lower price,” she said, referring to the decline of the PC market.
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