On 1-Sep-10, at 1:28 PM, Jan Velterop wrote:
Were academics at large capable of -- or interested in -- organising
and managing the publishing of their results, it would look very
different and likely be much cheaper.
Comment: Edgar and Willinsky (2010)'s survey of 998 journals using
Open Journal Systems found, among other things, that most of these
journals are scholar-led, and indeed, much cheaper, with an average
cost of $188 per article produced.
http://openarchive.stanford.edu/handle/10408/134
This is a small subset of the over 5,000 journals using OJS.
Heather Morrison, MLIS
PhD Student, SFU School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
Received on Thu Sep 02 2010 - 12:56:37 BST