Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 183. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2023-08-31 13:31:41+00:00 From: John Wall <jnwall@ncsu.edu> Subject: Pay for Publication Willard, I'm curious to learn if paying money for scholarly publication in the (digital) humanities is a phenomenon that others have experienced. Is it customary and I am simply not familiar with it? Is the need to publish becoming so critical that people are willing to pay for it? To pay what looks like lots of money for it? I've received a long and entailed email from someone associated with something called MDPI announcing a *"Special Issue entitled "Big Data Visualization and Virtual Reality", to be published in the journal Information (ISSN 2078-2489, IF 3.1). Based on your expertise in this field, we think you could make an excellent contribution. We welcome researchers, data scientists, designers, and industrial professionals to submit their original research and review articles that address open questions, provide insightful experiments, evaluations, and case studies, present an advance in performance and interaction modality design, or provide insights and guidelines towards future design and challenges. For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: https://www.mdpi.com/si/information/P1200T1SVV <https://www.mdpi.com/si/information/P1200T1SVV>" * All well and good -- except when I got further into the email I discovered that if they accepted the essay I must pay them over $1800.00. Or as they put it, *"An Article Processing Charge (APC) of 1600 CHF currently applies to all papers accepted after peer review." * This feels like someone here is going to make a tidy profit out of this issue. I've published a good number of essays in my time, but I've never been asked to buy my way into print before. I'm not at all interested in starting now, and I have advised these folks of my concern. It feels like a form of bribery to me. Others' thoughts? JNW -- The Rev Dr John N. Wall, FRHistS Professor Emeritus of English Literature North Carolina State University Principal Investigator for The Virtual John Donne Project https://virtualdonne.chass.ncsu.edu/ Including The Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu/ The Virtual Paul's Cross Project https://vpcross.chass.ncsu.edu/ The Virtual Trinity Chapel Project https://vtcp.chass.ncsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php