Re: "Open Access" at Cambridge University Press

[Roberto Takata <rmtakata@gmail.com>]

On 8/18/06, Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.

To the CUP its not just a question of costs, but a question of profits
that it could loose: the amount received from per article based
purchases. Certainly they averaged the number of purchases per article
- if the price is $27 per article, it would mean about 100 copies
sold.

But if you want, I could format your paper on pdf for free - I do it
for a electronic journal on arthropod control agent
(http://www.seb.org.br/bioassay) - and publish at an online open
access site: we could call it Journal of Dinosaurology or stuff.

(Though the ArXiv do not seems to have lowered publication prices...)

[]s,

Roberto Takata