Concerns about journal pricing

We should no longer submit our papers to expensive journals. We should not referee for expensive journals!

This page is not uptodate. Please look at Ted Bergstrom's journal pricing page and the SPARC newletters for latest developments.

The Problem

Reed-Elsevier's profit : (see a press release ) increased by 43% last year
Cinven & Candover bought Springer and Kluwer

Abbestellungen der Zentralbibliothek Physik in Wien
Innsbruck's experience with Elsevier
Cornell's Library cancels several hundred Elsevier journals, and so do Harvard and others

AMS Journal Price Survey
Comparative prices of Math journals by Rob Kirby, and an updated list.

Analyses, Opinions

Recommendations by the CEIC of the IMU
Economic analysis of scientific research publishing by the Wellcome Trust
The debate in Nature
Scientific Publishing: A Mathematician's Viewpoint by Joan S. Birman (Notices of the AMS, August 2000)
Mathematical articles and bottled water by K. Burdzy (Notices of the AMS, 2002)
Scientific literature's open sesame?
Michael Rosenzweig: Moving from Evolutionary Ecology to Evolutionary Ecology Research
Ted Bergstrom on journal pricing and refereeing
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING IN THE ONLINE ERA: WHAT WILL BE FOR-FEE AND WHAT WILL BE FOR-FREE? A discussion among economists
Why Science Journals Are So Expensive by Alexander M. Grimwade
Electronic Genesis: E-Journals in the Sciences by Alison Buckholtz
The Journal of Electronic Publishing
The D-Lib Forum

Solutions

Annals of Mathematics are online (free) now as overlay to the Mathematics arXiv !
Electronic journals in Mathematics
Project Euclid
Directory of Open Access Journals

SPARC : the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Open Archives Initiative
The Budapest Open Access Initiative , GAP initiative in Germany, Sherpa in UK.
Theoretical Economics: An open-access journal in economic theory ($100 submission fee)
Public Library of Science ( PLoS): starting free access journals in biology and medicine: $1500 publication fee
BioMed Central : many specialized open access journals in Medicine and Biology
ELSSS (ELectronic Society for the Social Sciences) plans a journal RET challenging JET
Scholarly Research Exchange (SRX) publishes open access journals in various fields. Article Processing Charges: $400 per accepted article.

Copyright Issues

Wilfred Hodges's mathematical copyright web page

Some thoughts on copyright of research papers by Reinhard Diestel

Economists' BLOG on copyright

Eric Weisstein's fight with CRC Press

Creative Commons: a flexible copyright license