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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

SPARC partners with Theoretical Economics

SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition issued a press release about its new partnership with Theoretical Economics. The first issue of the Open Access journal, published by the Society for Economic Theory, was released in early March.
The new, peer-reviewed outlet for high-quality research in economic theory provides an alternative to the Journal of Economic Theory and Games and Economic Behavior, both published by Elsevier.

My own quick and dirty research shows 2006 institutional subscriptions for Journal of Economic Theory $2,629, Games and Economic Behavior $737, Theoretical Economics $0.

The last part of the analysis may be too simplistic. Theoretical Economics doesn't charge for access, instead using a unique(?) two-stage author-pays funding model.

Submission fee: $75/paper; Society members 1 free submission/year (noncumulative); $35/paper, if all authors are from lower-income countries. Editors are not apprised of the size of the submission fee paid for a manuscript. Submission fees are not refundable, regardless of the disposition of the manuscript.

Publication fee: manuscript in LaTeX, in compliance with guidelines, no charge; papers in TeX or LaTeX not in compliance with guidelines, $5/journal page; papers not in TeX or LaTeX, $10/journal page.