Subject: Re: Cost of reveiw and editing
Janet Fisher (jfisher@MIT.EDU)
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 16:12:52 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990908161251.0090e840@po7.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 16:12:52 -0400 To: arl-ejournal@arl.org From: Janet Fisher <jfisher@MIT.EDU> Subject: Re: Cost of reveiw and editing
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Paul M. Gherman <gherman@library.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know where I can find the average cost of
> review and editing of articles. I remember seeing costs of
> about $200 for review and $1,000 for editing for APS
> journals.
Dear Paul,
What do you mean by "review" -- peer review of the articles? If so,
it would be the entire cost of the journal editorial office, some of
which may be paid by the publisher (through journal revenues) and
some of which may be paid by the university. This can be a very
difficult number to figure out. Some journal editors get paid, some
don't. Some publishers have staff for the review process in their
own offices. Some editorial offices have a person to handle the
peer review AND the copyediting of the material. Costs of space and
supplies from the University (typically overhead costs that aren't
broken out) would have to be factored in.
"Editing" -- meaning copyediting? That typically runs $600 or so per
standard size issue (160 pages, 6 x 9 size). But, again, this varies
dramatically based on the complexity of the content. If you mean the
work the journal editor does to edit the content, that would be in
the figure above.
I suggest contacting Don King and Carol Tenopir at University of
Kentucky. They have done quite a bit of analysis of journal costs.
Best wishes,
Janet Fisher
Associate Director for Journals Publishing
The MIT Press
<jfisher@mit.edu>
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