“Humanities Journals Cost Much More to Publish Than Science Periodicals”

A new study of 8 learned-society journals in the humanities and social sciences reaches some surprising conclusions. For instance, it costs almost four times as much to publish an article in such a journal than it does to publish one in a science, technical, or medical journal. (We're talking about journals run by scholarly societies, not the big commercial ventures or the heavyweights like Nature.) The report's not publicly available yet but should be soon, and I expect it will kick up a lot of dust in scholarly-publishing circles.