I have spoken with Larry Erlbaum who is totally sympathetic with
seeking a way to provide inexpensive electronic version to less
affluent countries. The facilities that the he and many other
companies currently use is not under his control. So he is taking up
the issue with his IT staff and whoever their provider is and promises
to get back to me.
If a good differential pricing policy by geographic location is
possible, it will alleviate if not solve some of the problems for some
of the people interested in MCA. Others willl remain.
mike
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:23:40 -0300, David Preiss <davidpreiss@puc.cl> wrote:
>
>
> Could you elaborate on this idea, Mike? I did not get the idea of what
> you are suggesting.
> David
>
> So, at the same time that I lobby to get the electronic version down to
> a reasonble price might members of XMCA come up with a better way to
> deal with the issue of institutionalized publication of a non-mainstream
> journal?
>
> For example, perhaps one of your universities would provide a nice
> subsidy if you took on the role of editor, or of organizing the editoral
> process. Or perhaps a non-American publisher in a country where prices
> are less expensive would like to offer the journal and support
> publication in a way that maintains its exchange value for young
> scholars who do not want to publish in Educational Psychologist or
> American Ethnologists, and who cannot affor the 125+ dollar subscription
> price for Human Development.
>
>
> David Preiss
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Mike Cole [mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com]
> Enviado el: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:10 PM
> Para: Xmca
> Asunto: I was wrong about electronic price
>
>
> Thanks for raising the issue of cost of MCA, David. Checking, it turns
> out that the electronic price was raised when we were not looking. I
> will contact the publisher about it today.
>
> Tony's point is also well taken, but the analysis incomplete. Yep, we do
> the labor of producing it. So why isn't it a public good?
>
> We can easily make it one. We can self-publish electronically and give
> it out free. That is what we used to do with the Newsletter that
> preceeded the Journal. What will be some of the consequences?
>
> Scholars will no longer be able to provide evidence of publishing in a
> carefully
> reviewed journal that appears in lots of citation abstracting
> services.
>
> I was not happy about converting from the Newletter to a formal journal.
> I am not happy about the large amount of labor Peggy, a graduate
> strudent, and I put into helping Harry, Anne, and his one staff person
> to coordinate all the work of getting reviews, figuring out page counts,
> badgering authors and reviewers who are late, threatening our citation
> legitimacy, etc. It was FAR easier before.
>
> I like the fact that Erlbaum makes one article a month free and that
> XMCA readers get to choose what they want to talk about. But personally
> speaking, I do not need MCA to have great discussions with the members
> of this group
>
> So, at the same time that I lobby to get the electronic version down to
> a reasonble price might members of XMCA come up with a better way to
> deal with the issue of institutionalized publication of a non-mainstream
> journal?
>
> For example, perhaps one of your universities would provide a nice
> subsidy if you took on the role of editor, or of organizing the editoral
> process. Or perhaps a non-American publisher in a country where prices
> are less expensive would like to offer the journal and support
> publication in a way that maintains its exchange value for young
> scholars who do not want to publish in Educational Psychologist or
> American Ethnologists, and who cannot affor the 125+ dollar subscription
> price for Human Development.
>
> Its a really important set of problems. All we need is the proper
> solution. Perhaps I can get the cost of the electronic version of the
> journal eliminated, B ut I see no way to make it free.
>
> Suggestions?
> mike
>
>
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