Que nous apprend le rapport "The value of UK HEIs contribution to the publishing process" ?
HEI pour Higher Institution Institutions, car ce rapport très intéressant a évalué le coût du peer review au Royaume Uni. Le résumé :
- Peer review is essential to scholarly journal publishing
- Publishers do not pay their peer reviewers
- The number of articles being peer reviewed is rising
- The cost to HEIs of peer review is rising as salaries and overheads rise
- Different studies put the cost to UK HEIs of peer review at between £110 million and £165 million per year
- Editors and editorial boards cost UK HEIs up to £30 million per year
- Publishers make payments to some editors, but this generally does not reach the HEI
- All these figures depend on where the hourly rate is set: currently set at £56/hour, the figures can be recomputed easily for a different rate
