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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by denzil_correa on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:44AM (#15009479)
> I think is ~95% in the case of Nature, you're paying for those other 19 papers to be checked.

All those 95% of papers checked are done by reviewers for free. I don't see any reviewers being paid. I know because I have reviewed papers across multiple conferences and journals.

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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by IanCal on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:58AM (#15009609)
The free reviewer work is not really relevant for this calculation though, unless there is no work done by the journal for those papers. Since papers are not submitted directly to the peer reviewers, there is at least some work happening.

Free peer review mostly only tells us that the total cost could go up significantly if they were paid.

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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by denzil_correa on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:41PM (#15010072)
> Since papers are not submitted directly to the peer reviewers, there is at least some work happening.

I am a reviewer and all papers are submitted directly to me. Even if not, the editor is a university professor who does this work.

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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by jasode on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:03PM (#15010307)
Which Elsevier computer science journals allow all unfiltered submissions to go directly to you?
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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by denzil_correa on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:20PM (#15010446)
Can you tell me which Elsevier Computer Science journals submissions are filtered? How do they filter? What is the criteria?
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