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Revision as of 13:01, 9 January 2009
It would be great to have an overview of publication fees. Please add to the list.
Publication fees by journals
Please add alphabetically to the table. Publication costs are in US dollars. Please give a source link.
Journal | Fee in USD | Comment | Source |
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BMC Biochemistry (BioMed Central) | 1485 | open access | [1] |
BMC Biology (BioMed Central) | 1775 | open access | [2] |
BMC Medicine (BioMed Central) | 1775 | open access | [3] |
Genome Biology (BioMed Central) | 2065 | open access | [4] |
NAR Nucleic Acid Research | 2670 | open access, non-members | [5] |
PLoS Biology | 2850 | open access | [6] |
PLoS Computational Biology | 2220 | open access | [7] |
PLoS Genetics | 2220 | open access | [8] |
PLoS Medicine | 2850 | open access | [9] |
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2200 | open access | [10] |
PLoS ONE | 1300 | open access | [11] |
PLoS Pathogens | 2850 | open access | [12] |
PNAS | 1700 | average costs, paid access | estimate of average PNAS |
PNAS | 2900 | open access, cheaper if institution has PNAS subscription | estimate of average PNAS |
Articles on publication costs
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- Economics of scholarly journal publishing, large website, 2001-2006 by Bergstrom and Bergstrom, Uni of Washington - focus on ecology
"..in the fields of economics and ecology, the average institutional subscription price per page charged by commercial journals is about 5 times that charged by non-profit journals"
"In 2001, the average real (adjusted for inflation) price per page of journals owned by commercial publishers has approximately tripled, while that of non-profit economics journals has increased by "only" 50 percent."
Table 1: Mean institutional price per page for journals in Neuroscience in 1997: $0.89 (for profit), $0.10 (nonprofit) [13]
"The average price of an academic journal rose by 58% between 1998 and 2003, compared to a UK retail price index increase of 11% over the same period."
"Reed Elsevier, for example, makes an operating profit of 34%, with profits after tax totalling nearer 17%.[88] Wiley had an operating profit of 29% in the first half of 2003.[89] These figures are substantially higher than the average operating profit of 22% across the academic, educational and professional publishing sector as a whole.."
"The average current cost of producing articles roughly seems to be $1500-$4000 for nonprofit publishers and $3000-$8000 for commercial (based on their own estimates in the UK hearings--I am deliberately using very wide ranges to accomodate all opinions)."
- Journal and publication costs, corrected figures, 2003 - recorded Email thread started by David Goodman, Princeton
Cost of serials to libraries: Columbia: $7.14 million serials expenditure, 5838 articles, $1223 each Cornell: $6.20 million, 4804 articles, $1290 each Dartmouth, $3.89 million, 1034 articles, $3720 each Princeton, $5.45 million, 2692 articles, $2025 each Stanford, $11.26 million, 5838 articles, $1930 each Yale, $10 million, 4648 articles, $2169 each .. Division by field: Columbia: 5126 sci, 540 soc sci, 172 human. Cornell, 4253 sci, 417 soc sci, 134 human Dartmouth, 688 sci, 279 soc sci, 67 human Princeton, 2169 sci, 251 soc sci, 272 human Stanford, 5126 sci, 540 soc sci, 172 human Yale, 3857 sci, 522 soc sci, 269 human
"$1,700 in page charges that the average PNAS author already pays"
"In the EMBO Journal, for example, authors are allowed six pages of text free, but are then charged $200 per page beyond that. A review of recent issues shows that almost all authors exceed six pages, voluntarily paying on average over $800 to publish their articles."