David Silver suggested our proposed journal be free to all, as JCMC seems to be. But even if online there are costs, which someone has to pay for with either bucks or sweat. I was the initial founder of _City & Community_, and am still on the board. Here are some ideas about the costs, from memory, excluding printing and postage. Managing editor (a grad student): $20K/year Editor (faculty member) teaching reduction -- if you're lucky, donated by your university. If you're not, my university would charge about $20K/year. Room -- will the university give it to you for free or charge rent. Furnishings: ibid Phone, xerox, etc. Figure $5K year. So a free journal is at least $25K a year in cost, and maybe twice that. Unless you can convince the university to subsidize and a student to work for free. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________