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Subject: Journal Prices
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 14:02:42 EST
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re. journal prices. The intended audience isn't impoverished academics but
corporate research libraries.  Like everyone else in the commercial world,
publishers are out to make money, not serve a community.  The way to deal
with such people is to charge them money for one's services, rather than
donate one's time.  Academics typically donate time to editorial boards in 
order to serve the academic community, and use time writing papers in order
to promote their own reputations.  When the publishing game starts
going beyond this traditional framework, it becomes commercial journalism.
How about forming an AI researchers society ( a la AMA ) which will set a scale
of fees which publishers should pay for papers to print? 
pat hayes
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