Arun,
Even accepting that staff costs are lower in India than in Europe or North
America, these journals must have *some* costs that they need to cover from
income. How is this income raised?
Fytton Rowland, Loughbrough University, UK.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Subbiah Arunachalam" <subbiah_a_at_YAHOO.COM>
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Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: How many journals sell authors Open Access by the article?
> In India journals published by the Indian Academy of
> Sciences and Indian National Science Academy are
> entirely open access and authors are NOT CHARGED AT
> ALL. Thus these are free for readers and authors pay
> nothing. However, subscribers to the print version pay
> an annual subscription which is ridiculously low
> compared to the subscription costs of even journals
> published by professional societies in USA and Europe,
> let alone commercial publishers.
>
> There are other such journals as well.
>
> Arun
> [Subbiah Arunachalam]
Received on Tue Mar 16 2004 - 15:30:27 GMT