Sentences with phrase «journal prices charged»

The library at the University of Konstanz, which is balking at journal prices charged by publisher Elsevier.

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This is the company, elsevier, with spectacular profit rates, whch gets its material (papers, books) which have mostly been produced at public expense (university salaries, public research grants), do very little actual editorial work (one usually has to supply papers charts etc «print ready»), get academic reviewers to review the books and papers free of charge (well, paid for by universities or they do it in free time), depend on journal editors whose time is paid for by (generally publicly funded) universities, then sells the journals to the same universities, sometimes for subscription prices in the thousands of dollars.

One New Yorker says he is buying fewer e-books because of the higher prices publishers are charging for them, telling the Journal:

Publishers would be able to charge for their services in managing peer review and publishing scholarly articles, leading to a free market and fair prices for such services (rather than the huge discrepancies in journal pricing that currently exist with monopoly rights).

Rebecca is addressing the pricing of the class of subscription journals for which authors can buy open access for their article with an «article processing charge» (APC)-- which can range as high as $ 5,000 in the case of Elsevier — in what are commonly known as «hybrid journals» in which content paid for by subscriptions and by APCs appear in the same journal.