Readers of the weblog will probably want to check out the following story in the Chronicle of Higher Education. “Humanities Journals Cost Much More to Publish Than Science Periodicals.” It is available for just a few days before the toll gate closes. Here is paragraph 1.
It costs more than three times as much to publish an article in a humanities or social-science journal as it does to publish one in a science, technical, or medical, or STM, journal, and the prevailing model used by many publishers of STM journals will not work for their humanities and social-sciences counterparts. Those are some of the eye-opening conclusions released today in a report on an in-depth study of eight flagship journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Find the whole article here:
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=XGjPVWFxjhprCnyFp2ZdnDwvTVGHyyZm
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