[Taxacom] Fwd: Fwd: open access

[Quentin Groom]

Yes, but even PLoS One has a fee waiver for researchers from low and 
middle income countries...

/"Fees for Low and Lower Middle Income Countries are calculated 
according to the PLOS Global Participation Initiative 
<http://www.plos.org/about/viewpoints/global-participation-initiative/> pricing 
program for manuscripts submitted after 9am Pacific Time on September 4, 
2012 (this program is not retroactive)./

    * /Group One: Countries from this list
      <http://www.plos.org/group-one-countries/> will not be charged for
      publishing/
    * /Group Two: Countries from this list
      <http://www.plos.org/group-two-countries/> will be charged a flat
      $500/

/Our fee waiver policy, whereby PLOS offers to waive or further reduce 
the payment required of authors who cannot pay the full amount charged 
for publication, remains in effect. Editors and reviewers have no access 
to whether authors are able to pay; decisions to publish are only based 
on editorial criteria."/

Quentin



Michael Heads wrote:
> 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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>> --
>> Dr. Quentin Groom
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>>
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Dr. Quentin Groom
(Botany and Information Technology)

National Botanic Garden of Belgium
Domein van Bouchout
B-1860 Meise
Belgium

ORCID: 0000-0002-0596-5376

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