Re: "Open Access" at Cambridge University Press

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

I have an easy answer.   Let people just start publishing their work on the 
Internet.   It'll put a stop to this nonsense real fast.

A reasonable fee?   Sure.   Several hunded dollars.  Not fifteen hundred. 
It's not like those journals don't make their money off of libraries, and 
professors who need to have hard copy personal collections of the journals.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24@yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Taylor" <mike@miketaylor.org.uk>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 8:44 AM
Subject: "Open Access" at Cambridge University Press


> Sounds good, right?  Wrong!  Check this out:
>
> All Cambridge asks in order to provide this service is
> that the author, or their institution or funding body,
> pays a fee to cover costs associated with the
> publication process, from peer-review of the submitted
> manuscript, through the copy-editing and typesetting,
> to online-hosting of the definitive version of the
> published article. The charge that will be applied for
> each article is £1500 / $2700.
>
> So if you want the right to give your work away, you have to pay
> Cambridge University Press £1500.  I don't think so!



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