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Re:Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access ... by specialp on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @12:31PM (#18922823)
Last year they published a grand total of 8 articles with the editorial staff doing the copy-editing, and web work for free. It is nice they are doing this but it isn't indicative of the cost of hosting/peer review/copy-editing more substantial journals.
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Re:Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access ... by a3_nm on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:17PM (#18925359)
As for "peer review", this has no cost: reviewers are not paid.
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Re:Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access ... by specialp on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @06:09PM (#18926500)
Facilitating peer review does have a cost. You would be surprised how much it takes to find referees that are both qualified to assess the paper and do not have too close of a relationship with the authors. Then there is the whole thing of getting them to file their reports.
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