The publication charge plan in physics journals
JUN 01, 1963
For more than three decades, research institutions have shared part of the expense of publishing the results of the physics research they have sponsored. The author of this article, now an administrative consultant to the American Institute of Physics, served as the director of the AIP from 1931 until his retirement in 1957.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3050983
Under the “publication‐charge plans” of most American physics journals, income needed to meet publishing expense is derived not only from subscription and dues payments, but also from a charge against authors’ institutions at a fixed rate per page. The charge is not obligatory, editorial acceptance of articles being unaffected by its payment or nonpayment, but nearly all institutions, companies, and agencies supporting research have accepted the moral obligation of meeting it.
© 1963. American Institute of Physics
