From Shaul Hanany, June 16, 2008


Here is the e-mail from the person at IOP about the cost of softbacks.

See the following links for an examples of digital proceedings

http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/1742-6596/114/1

http://www.iop.org/EJ/volume/1742-6596/112

Feel free to distribute among our telecon colleagues.

Shaul

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: publish proceedings with IOP
Date: 	Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:48:59 +0100
From: 	Graham Douglas <graham.douglas@iop.org>
To: 	Shaul Hanany <hanany@physics.umn.edu>




Dear Shaul

Many thanks for your e-mail. I'll take this opportunity to include costs for printed copies
in addition to answering the question about presentations.

Based on the following:

(a) the number of pages in the printed proceedings: 200 - 250
(b) the number of printed copies you need: 60
(c) binding: SOFTBACK (includes full colour image on cover at no extra cost)
(d) colour printing YES, ABOUT 25% OF TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES
(e) shipping to participants (assume most/majority in the US/Europe)

Our prices are

(i) 200 pages: $28 per copy
(ii) 250 pages: $32 per copy

The cost of colour printing is $0.5 per page per copy, ie $30 per each page printed in colour
(based on 60 copies). The cost of printed colour (per page per copy) varies only with the number of copies.

Our main requirement is that we do not publish proceedings that consist of (mainly) 1 or 2-page abstracts, we prefer to
have fuller conference papers of ~4 pages, or more --- although, of course, a small number of abstracts (say, few percent)
is of course no problem.

To answer the requirement for manuscript preparation, there are full guidelines and templates
on the JPCS web site. We require *only* a PDF, prepared as described in our author guidelines.

The specific pages of interest are:

http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.3/1742-6596

Also of interest:

Article checklists
http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.5/1742-6596#ESSENTIAL

PDF Guidelines
http://www.iop.org/ej/journal/-page=extra.4/1742-6596

I hope that our costs are acceptable and that we may have the opportunity to work with you.
Should you wish to publish with us the next step is to prepare a publishing agreement ---
just 2 pages long --- which summarises our arrangements.

I can also provide some standard HTML text for your website, containing a summary of what
your authors need to do, plus links to the guidelines etc --- to help save time making the
proceedings announcement.

Look forward to hearing from you

All the best

Graham
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