Re: Mandates: Practical Questions

From: Heather Morrison <hgmorris_at_SFU.CA>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:12:17 -0700

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

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