ERRATA
In the Nature/VOL 140/26 April 2001/ article (pp 1024-1025):
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html
the following passage contains some errors:
"The minimum cost of refereeing has been estimated as $500 per
accepted article by the American Institute of Physics
(
http://documents.cern.ch/archive/electronic/other/agenda/a01193/a01193s4t8/transparencies/Doyle.ppt)
but that figure almost certainly has inessential costs
wrapped into it (for example, the creation of the publisher's PDF).
I think that the true figure for peer-review implementation alone
across all refereed journals probably averages closer to $200 per
article, or even lower. Hence, quality-control costs account for
only 10% of the collective tolls actually being paid per article."
(1) The correct affiliation for Mark Doyle should be the American
Physical Society (APS), not the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
(2) A better URL for the estimate instead of the one listed is:
http://documents.cern.ch/archive/electronic/other/agenda/a01193/a01193s5t11/transparencies/
The estimate is a summary from the Geneva OAI Meeting; it is not an
official estimate by the APS.
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