http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/why-are-scholarly-journals-costly-even-with-electronic-publishing/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:47:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/why-are-scholarly-journals-costly-even-with-electronic-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-1156184 Tassia Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:41:48 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=37846#comment-1156184 Our local university library is having to cut back on journal subscriptions because of budget cuts. There was one journal subscription that costs $5,386 per year. Our local university library is having to cut back on journal subscriptions because of budget cuts. There was one journal subscription that costs $5,386 per year.

]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/why-are-scholarly-journals-costly-even-with-electronic-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-1156165 Rich Adin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:32:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=37846#comment-1156165 It's not only scholarly journals that are more expensive but even very slim college coursebooks are ridiculously priced. I was interested in a linguistics text that I had seen advertised by Cambridge University Press. When I checked on it, the price for the current, 2nd edition is $105; the first edition is available for $34. I wonder what has changed in lingusitics in the past 8 years to justify both a second edition and a high price? It’s not only scholarly journals that are more expensive but even very slim college coursebooks are ridiculously priced. I was interested in a linguistics text that I had seen advertised by Cambridge University Press. When I checked on it, the price for the current, 2nd edition is $105; the first edition is available for $34. I wonder what has changed in lingusitics in the past 8 years to justify both a second edition and a high price?

]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/why-are-scholarly-journals-costly-even-with-electronic-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-1156157 Sherman Dorn Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:15:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=37846#comment-1156157 Didn't the National Humanities Alliance produce <a href="http://www.nhalliance.org/bm~doc/hssreport.pdf" rel="nofollow">a recent report</a> on that suggesting that humanities and social-science journals are more expensive than science journals because a lot of their cost is in the reviewing cycle (they reject a higher proportion of submissions)? There's also the real cost of editing. Didn’t the National Humanities Alliance produce a recent report on that suggesting that humanities and social-science journals are more expensive than science journals because a lot of their cost is in the reviewing cycle (they reject a higher proportion of submissions)? There’s also the real cost of editing.

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