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- From: popx@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Why are Some Journals so Expensive?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.174406.8309@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 16:44:06 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.140042.8279@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu><1992Jul23.004719.29335@src.u <92221.182456U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>
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- In article <92221.182456U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>, U53644@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
- > You hit the nail on the head - the difference between profit and nonprofit
- > publishing. The latter will obviously make for cheaper publications. The
- > example given even is an example of someone doing what I recommended some of
- > the previous posters should do : gather together some colleagues to form an
- > editorial board, and put out your own journal at a lower price.
- > ...
- > Since the publishing houses are in this for the money (as is their right), if
- > the Mathematics community wants to see cheaper publications, it should consider
- > putting them out itself. It's already producing the contents - why not go the
- > final step, and arrange production (desk-top publishing)...
- > ...
- > Joseph B. Dunphy
- >
- How many mathematicians lack access to electronic mail, LaTeX, and
- PostScript printers? Have all articles submitted (or re-cast) to
- use LaTeX, with any diagrams that can't be handled by the picture
- environment included as PostScript specials. Distribute the result to
- subscribers by electronic mail, or from an FTP site. In the latter case,
- you might want some method to prevent those who haven't paid from receiving
- copies, but I should think that's feasible. It's the subscriber's
- responsibility to print the articles: to help him/her decide which are
- worh printing, include a table of contents and set of abstracts in
- plain ASCII text.
-
- I am really surprised that no-one has considered this before (at least,
- I have never seen it suggested).
-
- Jocelyn Paine
- Experimental Psychology
- Oxford
-