PHayes@SRI-KL (03/12/86)
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 -------
WILKINS@SRI-WARBUCKS.ARPA (Wilkins) (03/15/86)
And also, we could refuse to review papers for such journals unless some suitable fee is paid for the reviewing. Perhaps this AI Researchers Society could set up a fee structure for all sorts of services we provide the publishers. -------