Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 02:18:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: ranjit dharmapurikar
Dear Sir,
You have asked about the cost of open source journals.
who will bear the cost. Of course, the publisher,
agency, person who is putting the journal on the net
is required to bear the cost. Keeping the facility of
open source journals is a way of an advertisement.
Generally what I have observed that these open source
journals are very old. Whenevr they found that there
is not demand for such articles then they declear it
as an open source journal. At least with this open
source journals users will learn and will come to know
that such titled journals are available. So it is a
way of an advertisement. What I think. Like out dated
goods are sold by maximum discount for attracting the
customers towards new and fresh product. The same
story can be applicable with open source journals
R.G. Dharmapurikar
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wrote:
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:00:11 +0530
From: Chandrima Roy
Fine, it sounds great when we talk about free access
of Journals. But
there are lots of technical issues involved in
online conversion of
Journals, e.g. necessary format to decide - HTML,
XML, SGML, etc., get
them converted accordingly, data checking and proof
reading, maintaining
quality of images, pagination, necessary indexation
of Journals, build a
complete searchable platform for users,.a complete
project. This also
involves a cost, which someone has to bear. Hence,
please justify the
statement and let us understand who should bear the
cost?
Chandrima Roy
