[Irtalk] What goes into making a scientific manuscript public?

[Hilton Gibson]

*Currently, our libraries are paying about US$5000 per peer-reviewed
subscription article. **What is more difficult to find out is where all
that money goes.* Which steps are required to make an accepted manuscript
public? Because of their high-throughput (about 1200 journals with a total
of about half a million published articles), low-cost, open access
publishing model, I’ve contacted SciELO *and asked them how they achieve
such low costs – figures that range below US$100 per article*, a fraction
of commercial publishers. Abel Packer, one of the founders of SciELO, was
so kind to answer all my questions.

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2015/06/what-goes-into-making-a-scientific-manuscript-public/
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