From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:20:26 -0500 Ok, I have read all of these articles now, and I see absolutely no mention of one important cost factor that does not go away when one moves from a TA to an OA model: copyediting. How, one wonders, does PeerJ expect to provide professional copyediting for an author who pays only $259 for a life membership when that is about what it would cost to edit a single article? Can this new business plan really work if copyediting is provided to an author for multiple articles over time whose cost for editing will surely exceed, by multiples, the initial membership fee? Or is there no mention of this because copyediting will be a "value added" service for which authors will have to pay an extra fee each time beyond the membership fee? The "pre-prints" of course will not be copyedited, but surely PeerJ cannot expect to sustain itself as a high-quality journal if it does not provide first-rate copyediting for the "versions of record." Sandy Thatcher > From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:05:07 -0400 > > Many articles today about PeerJ, FYI. And I'm sure there were more > than this! Cheers, Ann Okerson > > http://www.nature.com/news/journal-offers-flat-fee-for-all-you-can-publish-1.10811 > > http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/52512-scholarly-publishing-2012-meet-peerj.html > > http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/06/publishing/new-open-access-academic-publisher-promises-to-revolutionize-business-model/ > > http://blog.mendeley.com/open-access/an-interview-with-the-founders-of-peerj-an-innovative-new-academic-publishing-startup/ > > http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/2012/06/12/interview-with-peter-binfield-and-jason-hoyt-of-peerj/
