Recent content by jrlaguna

I would also like to delete my account. The reason: I have been treated in an aggressive and hostile way by the PF editors, I don't want my information to be held here. I may take legal action if you don't fulfill my requirement. Best regards.

Such ill-intentioned misunderstanding and patronizing makes me have the strong impression that this site and their "PF mentors" get funding from the publishing industry, either open or covert. Can you prove it wrong?

@dcpo, thanks, seriously! Although I have discussed these ideas in many places, it's really getting on my nerves how these people are missing the basic point... At least you point at difficulties which prove that you understood the proposal! :) I really regret having posted it here. I will...

Zz, do you even read my comments? I NEVER say that authors pay for publication. It is the scientific community, via the library subscriptions, who pay that money, according to Paul Ginsparg (I hope you know who he is). I repeat for the last time, I feel like I'm talking to a wall. The authoring...

I have to explain things really slowly. So, let's try again. I never said that authors pay that much. It's the scientific community that covers for the cost, typically, through the library subscriptions. I do not know whether the ArXiv would want to go in this direction or not. I wanted to...

Zz, you insist on the idea that I'm a newbie in the field. I am not, I have more than 20 papers published, and I have friends who are editors of important journals (JSTAT, for example, but the J-series and NJP are very different from what other publishers do). I know what is their task, and I...

I care for society's cost of publication, Zz, not my own. Apparently, with the publication of three papers in an expensive journal you pay the year salary of a researcher. That's nonsensical. Seriously, I'm extremely disappointed with the lack of courtesy and the ability to reason of some...

Zz, do you really think editor work (email management, pretty-printing and proofreading) is worth $10000 per article? So, with my salary as average, an editor will consider 4-5 papers per year? OMG, it would take an editor per scientist!

OMG, it looks like I have to explain things really slowly... No, authors do not pay $1000-$10000 per article. That's the alleged cost per article, and the cost of the subscription is estimated to cover for that + some profit for the publisher. So, the scientific community as a whole pay for it...

Apparently, I didn't explain well. $1000 to $10000 is, according to Paul Ginsparg (very relevant high energy theoretician, father of the ArXiv) the cost of production, which is charged to the subscribing institutions (to all of them, not to each!). Pls, read the source :) So it is payed by the...

@ZapperZ, scientists do not do ALL the typesetting. But they do all the RELEVANT typesetting. Is the difference worth $1000-$10000? I feel you're quite susceptible. I thank you for your comments and sharing your thoughts with me, but you should also be open to criticism. You dismissed my...

$1000 - $10000 for a "pretty printed" article...? That's too much, dude! :)

ZapperZ, I agree with you that mathematical typesetting is a very interesting issue... that is tackled by mathematicians itself, not by editors. TeX was not developed by someone in the publishing industry, but by Donald Knuth, an outstanding computer scientist and mathematician. There are...

@dcpo, I am a physicist and I agree with you. I read either the ArXiv preprint or the final paper, I don't really care which one. "Professional typesetting" is negligible in most journals, but for Science and Nature, which are very fond of very pretty and ellaborate pics (which add nothing...

In my opinion, universities and research institutes are subsidizing heavily private companies (publishers + Thomson Reuters) in exchange for a nearly negligible contribution to science. They only provide their prestige. But their prestige is OURS.