Re: Page charges

Posted by Han on August 17, 2009, 11:49 pm

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> It is common that when a technical paper is accepted for publication

> by a peer reviewed journal, the author's employer usually pays page

> charges. Being retired, I wish to submit a technical paper to a

> journal. If I pay the page charges, would they be deductible? I will

> get no income from that. The journal would be that of an organization

> devoted to disseminating scientific and technical knowledge.

> If I were to collaborate with an academic on such a paper, would I be

> able to get a deduction by contributing to the academic's institution

> for the specific purpose of paying the page charges?

> Bill

In my experience as a biomedical researcher, page charges are paid by
the investigators' (investigator's) funds. Usually these are grant
funds of some kind. It may be possible to request an exemption from the
publisher, but I'm not giving you more than a 15% chance of success in
that (zero if the publisher is Elsevier). It may be better for your
wallet if you find a journal with no or lesser page charges. With the
current wide distribution of search and abstracting services, it is by
far not as important any more (other than prestige) to get published in
a "good" journal. Of course, the critiques and press coverage would be
better ...

What area would your paper be in?
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Han
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Posted by Han on August 19, 2009, 9:53 am

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>> In my experience as a biomedical researcher, page charges are paid by

>> the investigators' (investigator's) funds. Usually these are grant

>> funds of some kind. It may be possible to request an exemption from

>> the publisher, but I'm not giving you more than a 15% chance of

>> success in that (zero if the publisher is Elsevier). It may be

>> better for your wallet if you find a journal with no or lesser page

>> charges. With the current wide distribution of search and

>> abstracting services, it is by far not as important any more (other

>> than prestige) to get published in a "good" journal. Of course, the

>> critiques and press coverage would be better ...

>> What area would your paper be in?

> This would be for prestige. I am getting on in years. If this paper

> does get published, it is likely to be my last significant

> publication.

> It is of no great technical consequence. I discovered, probably

> rediscovered, some electrical network properties that should be well

> known. The astounding part is that they have not shown up on Google

> searches.

> Bill

There must be some search engine other than google for your subject
area. Isn't there an ISI search? Then you could also search for
alternate journals and do some fee "shopping". Also isn't there
somewhere an old colleague who could sponsor you?

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