[Taxacom] Fwd: Fwd: open access

[Michael Heads]

Hi Quentin,

The study you cited found an average fee of $US 906, but their survey
included many local journals. Decent international journals charge more,
e.g. PLoS One is $1350, BMC Evol Biol is $2060. I've never paid page
charges in my life and as I don't have one of Paul's typical research
grants of half a million I certainly won't be publishing in these
journals.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Heads <m.j.heads at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Fwd: open access
To: Quentin Groom <quentin.groom at br.fgov.be>


The study you cite found an average fee of $US 906, but their survey
included many local journals. Decent international journals charge more,
e.g. PLoS One is $1350, BMC Evol Biol is $2060. I've never paid page
charges in my life and as I don't have one of Paul's typical research
grants of half a million I certainly won't be publishing in these
journals.


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Quentin Groom <quentin.groom at br.fgov.be>wrote:

> Michael,
> the belief that Open Access cost thousands of dollars is a myth.
>
> See Solomon, D. J. and Björk, B.-C. (2012), A study of open access
> journals using article processing charges. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 63:
> 1485–1495. doi: 10.1002/asi.22673
> Although this article is closed access the abstract tells you enough.
>
> Also see a summary at http://t.co/TJURqTfmQy
>
> Regards
> Quentin Groom
>
> Michael Heads wrote:
> > ‘If you look at less wealthy countries like low and middle income
> > countries,  they really really struggle to get access and so that’s a
> real
> > impediment that prevents researchers in those countries from being able
> to
> > either contribute or do world class research’. So if you charge thousands
> > of US dollars to publish one paper that will help them contribute?
> >
> >
> >
> > ‘Even with  my brother starting the public library of science...’ – so no
> > conflict of interest there then...
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Here is a splendid clip on open access, well worth to spend a couple of
> >> minutes
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY#t=170
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Enjoy, and think about what it means for our domain
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Donat
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Dunedin, New Zealand.

My recent books:

*Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics.* 2012.* *University of
California Press, Berkeley.

*Biogeography of Australasia:  A molecular analysis*. Available January
2014. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.