[Beowulf] [External] Re: First cluster in 20 years - questions about today

[Benson Muite]

Charges depend alot with field. People in medical fields generally pay $2,000 per paper for open access, with their research grants supporting this - the idea being that medical information is useful and it is cheaper for the funding body to make their research widely available, than for libraries and medical professionals to purchase the articles. In many other fields this is much less common.

Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations is open access and has no page charges. Conference papers are typically not open access, ISC has become a recent exception. Open access options are publisher specific, Springer can allow open access for a fee, ACM does allow free open access through a dedicated "authorizer link" and regular open access for a fee, IEEE conferences give no open access options (in particular affects SC) , though IEEE journals do have a fee for open access. For computational chemistry, not sure what the situation is with open access. To ensure wide dissemination, may people put their publications on arXiv, other pre-print/post-print servers or their homepage.

Many learned societies obtain a large fraction of their operating income from journal subscriptions. Due to automation, publication costs have declined significantly, but  the cost of journals have not matched this. Unfortunately, it is hard to change established income patterns.

Further reading includes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
 

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020, at 7:54 PM, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> Dear Prentice
> 
> yes and no. The issue here is open access, here reputable journals are 
> charging as well. 
> However, in general you are right, most journals, apart from open access, do 
> not charge you. They charge the libraries which are stocking their issues.
> 
> Predatory publishers is a big problem though. They are masking themselves with 
> name similar to reputable journals but ask you to pay for their open access. 
> Their impact factor is very low as well. 
> 
> My rule is to stick to journals which are published by the learned societies. 
> 
> All the best
> 
> Jörg
> 
> Am Freitag, 7. Februar 2020, 11:40:41 GMT schrieb Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf:
> > On 2/6/20 8:36 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 21:27:51 -0500, you wrote:
> > >> Assuming my work and writing is acceptable quality, how likely will I be
> > >> to
> > >> get published with just a master degree?
> > > 
> > > Can't answer that, but my understanding is that publishing in academic
> > > style journals costs money so that may also be a consideration for you
> > > even if you create something of interest and can work past the
> > > education/lack of institution.
> > 
> > A legitimate journal does not charge you to have your article published.
> > Journals that do are known as "predatory publishers" and usually are of
> > low-reputation. We recently had a seminar here at work on predatory
> > publishing and how to avoid it, which is how I know this.
> > 
> > Prentice
> > 
> > 
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