From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 08:13:59 +0100

Thanks Ari

Yes I wondered if his was the case.  I am assuming that the payment is
made by the Russian publisher who is treating the authors of journal
articles like authors of chapters in a book. The whole way in which
secondary rights is handled has always been rather different and I
have heard of but never experienced such arrangements in some learned
society publishers for book authors but not for journal authors.

Anthony

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From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 22:43:03 -0700

Anthony,

I sent an inquiry to my Russian friends and the outcome proves my
memories were not that precise.

It appears (contrary to what I believed)  that Russian journals do NOT
pay their authors except in ONE case: when the journal is translated
to another language.

Springer seems to routinely translate several top Russian Physics and
Math journals. Probably, Springer purchases a permission to translate
and the authors of the translated articles are rewarded - by modest
two-digit $$ remuneration.

Though a somewhat weird business model, a heritage from the Soviet
era, it is certainly a step in the right direction - where publishers
share their profits with their authors.

Ari Belenkiy


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:17 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:22:04 +0100
>
> As someone who writes on the history of journals and finds it very
> difficult to discover lots of what should be easy to find bits of
> information, I would love to know more from Ari about Russian journal
> publishers and who they pay and what they pay for. In the UK and the
> US my own experience is that book authors including contributors of
> chapters have usually been paid but journal authors usually have not
> been.
>
> Anthony