Perhaps someone out there can enlighten me. For review articles, if you want to reproduce a figure from someone's published work, you are required to get permission from the copyright holder (e.g., APS for Physical Review, ACS for Nano Letters, etc.). As far as I can tell, the professional societies (APS, ACS) are cool about this, and won't charge you for permission. Even Nature, a for-profit magazine, does not charge for this if all you're doing is using a figure here and there. However, Science, run by the non-profit AAAS, wants to charge $31.25 per figure for permission to reproduce that figure in a review article. Why is Science doing this? Is this some attempt to recoup publication costs? Anyone got an explanation?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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