Current market rates for scholarly publishing services

For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned institutions. After years fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access been proposed as latest potential solution. However, publishing are also high and rising well beyond inflation. What missing from public discussion so far is a quantitative approach determine actual costs of efficiently article using state-of-the-art technologies, such that informed decisions can be made appropriate price levels. Here we provide granular, step-by-step calculation costs associated with primary research articles, submission, through peer-review, publication, indexing archiving. We find these range less than US$200 per in modern, large-scale platforms post-publication about US$1,000 prestigious rejection rates exceeding 90%. The publication representative today come lie at around US$400. discuss additional non-publication items make up difference between final price.