PUBLISHING FEES IN ACADEMIA

 

 

Introduction

 

One of the authors reviewed  available literature and analyzed  issues dealing with

publishing in academia with limited resources (Snell et. al 1976, Snell et. al.

1994.)

 

One of the problems or opportunities now associated with publishing in

higher education is the cost . Numerous high quality

journals have discovered that to survive with diminishing resources,

 they must ask the author or authors to  help pay for the printing and distribution

of the article. Funds from the authors can not alone support the publication.

Because they are not mass marketed, do not have major advertisers or

associations to support them, expenses must be shared with the

writers.

 

It is not uncommon, for  college and universities to  pay  for publishing costs.*

 

These  costs include pagination fees, manuscript reviewer fees, subscription costs, and mandatory membership  if an association  is in part sponsoring the journal.**

 

A selected list that has some form of publishing fee includes the following:

 

 

American Sociological Review, American Economic Review,

Americas Review, Economica,Psychological  Reports,

 Psychological Bulletin, Psychology:Journal of Human Behavior,

Education, Journal of Instructional Psychology, Reading Improvement,

 College  Student Journal, Sociological Abstracts, the late Southern

Journal of  Educational Research, Peace Research Abstracts, Peace Research,

the late College Student Survey, Community College Social Science Survey,

International Journal of Management, International Biographical Association

Newsletter, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems,

American Ethnologist, Journal of Dairy Sciences, Journal of Integral Equations

and Mathematics, Michigan Mathematical Journal, The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, BIT-Numerical Mathematics,

Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Illinois Journal of Mathematics, Indiana Journal of Mathematics, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences,

American Statistician, Annals of Applied Probability, Annals of Probability,

Annals of Statistics, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of American Chemical Society, Canadian Journal of Plant Science,

American Midland Naturalist,Biochemistry, Journal of Electrochemical Society,

Environmental Toxicology& Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Physics, Macromolecules, Journal  of Environmental Quality, Journal of Optical Society of America, Journal of

Vacuum Science and Technology, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Physical Review, Space Science Reviews, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Institute of Electrial and

Electronic Engineers Transactions on Plasma Science, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Applied Sciences, The RAND Journal of Economics, The Review of Financial Studies,

Review of Financial Economics, Southern Business and Economics Journal, Public Finance Review, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Jornal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Accounting Research,Journal of Busines, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Financial and Quanatative Analysis, Decision Sciences, American Economic Review, The Accounting Review, Auditing,The World Economy, Teaching Politics, Tokyo Journal of Mathmatics, Scandanavian Journal of Economics,Journal of Sonsumer Affairs, Journal of Economic Hisstory, Journal of Economtrics, Economica. 

 

 

Conclusion

It would appear that publishing fees  will remain part of the future in academia.

 

 

References Cited

 

Snell, Joel C, Webb, Vicent, Hoffman, Dennis and Bill  Wakefield

"The College Student Teacher In Hard Times: Junior Faculty In A New Age

of Scarcity” COLLEGE STUDENT JOURNAL, Vol. 19 #3, Fall, 1976, 245-252.

 

Snell, Joel C, Tesar, Dan and Saul Mekies “Writing and Publishing at the

Community College: An Editorial Essay” EDUCATION,  Vol. 114,#3,

Spring 1994, 445-446.

 

*The authors’ school pays pagination fees every other year, once per annum.

**Fees may be covered in grants that are funded from outside of academia, but the results of the research   from the grant are intended for publication in journals that have a small but important population

of educational and professional readers. Additionally, individuals who give papers at conferences

where expenses can no longer be covered by their host academic institutions, must be considered

part of  publishing costs. Special note: the Journal of Economics and Sociology go out of their

way to indicate that fees are not charged to the writer. It would appear that publishing fees are

becoming more common.