Re: [Wiki-research-l] Access2research petition = bad idea

Bills for what? Dead tree publication? Obsolete, switch to print on demand. Online publication? Once you have free access (no need to set up a "web shop" and collect money), web publishing is relatively simple. Hundreds of thousands if not millions have created web pages, and it is much easier to do so now than it was in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if there already was an OA journal friendly host and/or website creation kit; if there isn't, creating one wouldn't be a major problem (for the kit, free hosts like Google Sites are even less of an issue). If a given editing team has next to zero Internet literacy, ask among the grad students (hire one or get them to volunteer). Labor? As in authors? Editors? Reviewers? It's not like they are being paid under a current model. To sum it up, the only real cost associated with journal publishing is that of a single grad student who acts as an assistant/managing editor. That's the cost of about $1,000-$1,500 a month. That doesn't seem terrible, considering the potential sources of funding (universities, grants, professional associations and donations). And as much as I hate to say it, if this amount is really a problem (let the slaving grads starve...), that job could be outsourced for a fraction of that cost to somebody through the Internet freelancing portals. Consider that you can hire people for $20-$30 an hour for such tasks, and consider how many hours really go into this kind of a job... -- Piotr Konieczny "To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski On 5/21/2012 2:01 AM, Richard Jensen wrote: ______________________________**_________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.**wikimedia.org<Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wiki-**research-l<https:/…