By the way, the Annals of Physics, referred to above, has an institutional subscription price of $2100 per year, a rough cost of $19.51 per 1000 characters.
http://www.arl.org/create/resources/Table_Pages/TA BLE_most-c1000-phys.html
Of course, Nuclear Physics B has an annual sub. cost of...
wait for it...
$11,453
OK,
But there is a baseline of information here that is missing, and let's take a look at the pricing/payment model, and see how all of this REALLY works - whether you pay for publication or no...
This regards academic based publication only, by the way, though that it the lion's share.
The Research is done under the auspice of the University, often funded through grants. So, in the majority of cases, a taxpayer supported institution being support3d by taxpaer dollars. Right so far?
Either the institution or the grant funding stream [ok, nearly always the grant funding stream] pays for the Publication costs, thus using taxpayer dollars to send this information to the Publisher [after it goes through the traditional vetting process, peer review].
Once the paper is published, how then, in the traditional model, is it accessed? Yes, it's accessed through the University Library system. Once again, tax dollars at work. Don't have a Univ. affiliation? The odds of getting your hands on serious quality scientific publications are pretty slim.
So, the institution/grant agency pays to DO the Research. The institution/grant agency pays to format and then to Publish the Research. And then, once this process is DONE, the Univ. Library then pays for the Publications THEMSELVES via subscription, even though they [as a group] are the ones that PAID originally to DO the research.
In the Open Access model, the first two steps DO remain the same, but once the material is published... It is free on the Web for the Common Good, and access is there for all.
Tell me, how is this not a BETTER model?
and let's not forget the connections between mozilla and google. That makes a substantive difference in how these things may play out. Gbrowser, anyone? I for one am ready for that... It is, however, one of the problems with the MSIE and MSN search tool... no one can follow what might be happening very well, but I have seen no indication that the prefetch is connected in this manner. Of course, now they'll be looking at it, which isn't a bad thing, by any means. Speed is always nice, though I also have to hope that mozilla will allow us to turn prefetch off.
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By the way, the Annals of Physics, referred to above, has an institutional subscription price of $2100 per year, a rough cost of $19.51 per 1000 characters. http://www.arl.org/create/resources/Table_Pages/TA BLE_most-c1000-phys.html
Of course, Nuclear Physics B has an annual sub. cost of...
wait for it...
$11,453
OK, But there is a baseline of information here that is missing, and let's take a look at the pricing/payment model, and see how all of this REALLY works - whether you pay for publication or no... This regards academic based publication only, by the way, though that it the lion's share. The Research is done under the auspice of the University, often funded through grants. So, in the majority of cases, a taxpayer supported institution being support3d by taxpaer dollars. Right so far? Either the institution or the grant funding stream [ok, nearly always the grant funding stream] pays for the Publication costs, thus using taxpayer dollars to send this information to the Publisher [after it goes through the traditional vetting process, peer review]. Once the paper is published, how then, in the traditional model, is it accessed? Yes, it's accessed through the University Library system. Once again, tax dollars at work. Don't have a Univ. affiliation? The odds of getting your hands on serious quality scientific publications are pretty slim. So, the institution/grant agency pays to DO the Research. The institution/grant agency pays to format and then to Publish the Research. And then, once this process is DONE, the Univ. Library then pays for the Publications THEMSELVES via subscription, even though they [as a group] are the ones that PAID originally to DO the research. In the Open Access model, the first two steps DO remain the same, but once the material is published... It is free on the Web for the Common Good, and access is there for all. Tell me, how is this not a BETTER model?
and let's not forget the connections between mozilla and google. That makes a substantive difference in how these things may play out. Gbrowser, anyone? I for one am ready for that...
It is, however, one of the problems with the MSIE and MSN search tool... no one can follow what might be happening very well, but I have seen no indication that the prefetch is connected in this manner. Of course, now they'll be looking at it, which isn't a bad thing, by any means. Speed is always nice, though I also have to hope that mozilla will allow us to turn prefetch off.