I do like CEUR the question is where these get indexed. I think that CEUR proceedings aren’t indexed uniformly (I hope I’m wrong; and maybe Google Scholar picks up all of CEUR) but rather that it depends on the conference. If we could get papers indexed by at least DBLP, that would be good. It seems to be possible, based on my experience as author in another conference: they published at CEUR and got indexed by DBLP — I can put you in touch with conference chairs (of Agreement Technologies) for more info if that becomes relevant. To me indexing is important because it helps find things in the larger literature — making the difference between grey literature and formal publishing.

For Springer, their Author Processing Charges are found at
http://www.springeropen.com/about/apcfaq/howmuch and see also the FAQ at http://www.springeropen.com/about/apcfaq. They seem to be drawing expertise from BioMedCentral, and they are promoting discount programs to libraries (e.g. for institution/author payment splits and prepay options. See http://www.springeropen.com/libraries

Claypool & Morgan might also be worth approaching; they have a growing reputation in CS though I don’t think they’re doing conference proceedings as of yet.

I’m glad there are numbers out there now from the ACM though I also would have hoped they are lower. Compared with others, these numbers are somewhere in the middle. Elsevier and Springer have quoted me both > EUR 2000, while some tell me Springer also has EUR 800 options (just where?).

At this year’s WikiSym + OpenSym the main keynoter is Phil Bourne, an editor at PLOS (which is quite expensive open access) so we should ask him about cost structures.

Cheers,
Dirk

On the ACM open access options: More particularly, currently this is what I read at http://authors.acm.org/main.html
“ACM’s author-pays option consists of the following Article Processing Charge (APC) payment levels, for full articles:

Journal article
No ACM member authors: $1,700
One or more ACM members authors: $1,300

Proceedings article
No ACM/SIG member authors: $1,500
One or more ACM/SIG member authors: $1,100″

While I’m glad that ACM is adding an open access option, the pricing seems excessive. I’d like to know what their cost structure is, and what it would cost to make the entire ACM Digital Library (including existing publications) open access.

Some communities (notably high-energy physics) have raised appropriate funding to make the entire publications in the field open access (i.e. with no author fees). Could ACM open access as a society, rather than by author paying? I’d like to see the ACM community take a close look at the costs and benefits of that!

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2012/bin/view/Main/Program

Though I recognize that is not an acceptable replacement for the delay in getting these into the ACM Digital Library.

You’re right of course, that I mismanaged the publication process. I apologize for that. I’ve been in touch with the ACM, and the papers should be available quite soon. I know that’s a cold comfort, so again I apologize.

Best regards,

ACM: http://www.acm.org/news/featured/author-rights-management

Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676