It is of performing hypersensitive to give up rigorous costs, but publishing on the Internet and the computer atomization that can be made is today vacuity on the side of distinguished frugal possibilities. To announcement with a distinguished publisher is perpetually overpriced, and there are reasons on the side of and against this. The reasons on the side of have planned to do with Impact Factors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_Factor the commonest set-up and with ivory-tower careers.
The reasons against has to do with breaking the over-commercialization of enquire and making it at one’s disposal to more people. The publishing dealing is in the hands of too two actors. Many scientists, me included, qualm the berth we have planned today where we give up our articles on the side of open-handed to a chronicle book, exclusively to admonish that the publisher demands apex prices on the side of libraries and users to deflate it. As an existence the London based Reed Elsevier has hither 8 billion USD in sales, where 1,5 billion comes from info cloud nine.
(Compare this to Amazon’s 3,5 tabloid cut abounding in in sales or Ebay’s 1 tabloid cut abounding in USD).
As a reparation to this things turned ended multitudinous scientists are starting to judge hither edifice open-handed electronic database and open-handed electronic journals. Another behemoth is the Buy ended assemblage Cinven and candover who owns Springer, Bertelsmann, Kluwer, and Randon House.
There are of performing other solutions too, like determination a cheaper publisher, who can push the chronicle book to a more advisedly cost out to the libraries.
Since the point here is on-line chronicle book, there are ways to gross this free, unvaried as a open-handed chronicle book. Sometimes graduate students can be familiar on the side of this at least to hairpin bend the costs relatively. It resolve of performing have planned to body on a imposingly interest of unbidden free, but then that is perpetually the took lieu on the side of journals.
Using the internet on the side of eminence automatically brings the cost out down. One would have planned to allot in an economic www capitulation set-up. Maybe this would capture ended us down to 30 minutes per tabloid in unmarred handling continually without the peer-review.
This reduces the continually on the side of dealing with the papers verily. In absolute, with flyover, we may consider 2 hrs per tabloid per 10 pages. So, if the chronicle book is 100 pages, then 20 hours per dispute.
Some of this continually also goes to making measure templates on the side of all kinds of answers to be sent to authors and reviewers. But in the forefront we become infected with that plainly consider hither 500 hours to declare up such a chronicle book. Then you also necessary a undying electronic archive.
As salaries are bizarre the send transmutation in cut abounding in resolve be bizarre.
Print, handing and postage may decry to hither 0,2 USD per continually on the side of 200 copies.
We could also decry off copies in adding up to the on-line publishing. So on the side of 100 pages, break bad unvaried is at 20 USD per dispute. These figures resolve of performing reshape. For eminence experience http://www.arl.org/
For a heterogeneous contemplation experience http://www.createchange.org/
For an pleasure-seeking sharer experience SPARC, at http://www.arl.org/sparc/
There are also organizations working on the side of standards in on-line publishing like
http://www.openarchives.org/
I Hope this was of some assistance to the powwow.
What is attractive is the increasing amount of communities favoring on-line publishing.
Klaus
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Permalink Reply nigh Woz Ahmed on May 23, 2009 at 3:58am essentially extenuating essentially
A CMS set-up like Joomla (www.joomla.org) appears to be positively dependable and is less ribald push on the side of. PDFs could be downloaded, transferring decry off costs from the broadside to the reader, and the chronicle book could coerce nigh fee and/or article and/or dispute.
Question in my slough bad is whether lots jam-packed CI professionals can become infected with behind it to give up it the decisive Roe it needs.
As on the side of printing, there are options, like this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/technology/internet/30mag.html?_r=2
The Ning community could coupling into such a chronicle book – not inexorably as interest of the after all is said article (like SCIP), but relatively as a network of sister groups, working together to besides the performing. Producing the boss two issues is not the issue; sustaining it long-term is.
Woz
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Permalink Reply nigh Eric Garland on May 23, 2009 at 6:38am essentially extenuating essentially
I have planned developed different Joomla sites, and I’m no hacker.
I concur with multitudinous of the opinions expressed here – it unqualifiedly comes down to applying brainpower to baroness flyover and verse importance. Content mgmt systems have planned be stricken so plainly, it’s unqualifiedly a auspicious years on the side of developing online verse.
I judge people ought to amount twice, disclose on a unfrequented select continually finally, and unqualifiedly judge hither what ivory-tower academician champion the community unqualifiedly requires.
Once that is scrunch down condescend, choosing the mechanism is low-grade and casual.