Re: Scholarly Journals (Was TAG)

D. Spencer Hines wrote:
Go Ahead...

Please flesh this out more.

You seem to be describing the Economic Theory behind Academic and
Professional Journals.



well, yes.

In science the "usual" journal gets most of its money from
the sponsor's of the research ("page charges". That is, the authors pay money
to the journal to publish the article. But the money comes from
the grant that paid for the research ... this is customarily
included as a line item for all grants from the US government
or some society or other (American Chemical Society, American
Cancer Society, etc.)

All paper or subscription web journals also charge for
paper or Internet copies, but this is not the major input.

Most journals don't accept advertising. Some, even perfectly
respectable and moderately prestigious ones do, such as Analytical
Chemistry. This is normally stuck in the front and/or back.
Analytical Chemisty ads are, as you might guess, for the
instruments that do the analyzing.


The only thing people in science expect to get paid in journals for
articles is for editorial material, not the science itself.
And it is the rare piece that qualifies for that, since most
such material is written by in-house salaried writers. I'm referring
here to the stuff you see at the front of Science or Nature.

Books, well, even in science you get paid for books and
some of the time for book chapters. For textbooks you make
substantial money off royalties ... for freshman books,
big, big money ... a half a million bucks off a book is not
unheard of. Visit our parking lot ... not all the
Ferraris, Porsches, and expensive BMWs come from
consulting deals. Most do, but some come from textbooks.


Doug McDonald
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