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 -----Original Message----- 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