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Why do " 'inclusive' access" textbooks normally self-destruct after a year or so?
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There's a technology called automatic textbook billing, or "inclusive" access (IA). It is also known by many other names.
With IA, students are ...
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How best to handle financial support for gold OA publication fees?
I just had a paper accepted for publication in an Elsevier journal. It is to be published open access, so the journal has a sizeable open-access publication fee (or "APC") ~$2000.
I've ...
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How can publishers justify author fees for open access journals? [closed]
The context for my question is that I recently discovered a new journal called Experimental Results, published by Cambridge University Press. Their mission, as stated on their website, is:
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Article got accepted into PRL -- do I pay the costs?
Last week we got an article accepted into PRL (Physical Review Letters). As is standard, they afterwards sent out an email saying
To help defray editorial and production expenses, APS, a
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What could be incentives for publishers to waive fees for reusing figures?
I'm in charge to obtain permissions to reuse figures from previous publications for our future work. Our publisher is a STM-signatory so for most journals there is little problem as their publisher ...
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Publication charges are not sent to the right address?
I am disappointed that I can not get an answer about a submitted article for publication in a journal.
I receved the acceptation for final publication, then I paid the publication fees by Western ...
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Why don't researchers request payment for refereeing?
One of the most criticized aspects of the current publishing scheme, is that academics do pretty much all the work for free and publishers get the money.
Why don't people just charge a fee when ...
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Dataset of retraction fines per publisher
I read in the Nature comment Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors authored by David B. Allison, Andrew W. Brown, Brandon J. George& Kathryn A. Kaiser and published today
Science relies ...
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Can I get a refund if I bought an article that contains a major flaw?
Is it possible to get a refund from a publisher if I bought an article that contains a major flaw (i.e.,one that invalidates the main results or the main conclusions)? Assume the article was bought ...
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How much does it cost the publisher to publish an academic article?
I am interested to know the cost of publishing an academic article. I do not mean in the simple sense of "what does a given journal charge an author to publish?" or "what does an association or ...
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What are the profit margins of academic publishers?
With an eye to finding the reasons behind high journal subscription costs: do journals / publishers make outrageous margins, or are prices truly justified by the costs to run journals? In other words, ...
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Who is earning money when users buy access to a research article?
I'm a software engineer, but I used to have to read a lot of papers about neurology. I am slightly disappointed by the high price for access to the full text of research papers. I can understand a ...
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Is there any way to pressure textbook publishers to reduce price?
I am an instructor in a medium-sized state school in the USA. The price for the textbook to the introductory math course that I teach just increased. Again. A new, paperback copy costs 170 USD. I want ...
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Do Springer, IEEE, Elsevier charge a fee for non-open-access journals?
My PhD advisor and lab colleagues think that Springer, IEEE and Elsevier journals non-open-access charge authors for publishing a paper. (They usually only publish in local journals.) All the info I'...
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Is it ethical for a lecturer to require students to purchase an online learning kit where kit is used for course assessments?
I am taking a course in a may-not-be-top-but-still-decent university located in North America. The course lecturer forces us to pay for an online learning kit from Pearson by adopting all the graded ...
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