Summary: Academic journals don?t happen by magic, and even online editions are expensive to produce in ways that scholars may not realize. That?s the argument by two scholarly publishers, Fred Dylla (right), executive director at the American Institute of Physics, and Brian D. Scanlan (left), president of Thieme Publishers. The two give their response to comments by our guest from last month?s show, a scholar argued that in an online world journals should publish scholarly journals free online.
