Actually most of the journals in my field are not in the business to make money, but only to break even if possible. They are owned by professional societies (IEEE in my case) and breaking even is hard enough - I’ve seen the budgets. They are mostly run by volunteer editors, who don’t get paid. I got a reasonable dinner earlier this month at an Ed Board meeting, that is my pay for the year.
The reason journals publish papers on the web (though I agree the paper in question has probably already been published) is that for purposes of tenure a paper on the web is worth nothing. What counts is that it passes review and is put in the most prestigious journal possible. Some of these are write-only; they have miniscule circulations, and the papers probably get read by only the few people in that area. But they go on. Page charges, which usually get paid for by grants, are ways of keeping these low circulation magazines more or less solvent.
I believe that many journals allow authors to put their papers on the web site. The bottom of the first page has the copyright information and the journal issue and page numbers, for citations, and this is added in editing and probably won’t be in the copy the author has.
That’s the difference then. In chemistry, the ACS is the society to belong to. The ACS is big money. Cracks are showing in their model. Many chemists are letting membership lapse and I’ve even heard of one school refusing to renew, but it’s a monolith that will not go down easy.
The vast majority of editors (and editorial board members, and referees) of academic journals, in all fields, are volunteers who do not get paid. It does not follow that the publishers of the journals, whether they be professional societies or commercial companies, are not making money off them. Usually they are. Profitability is often quite high, even for very low circulation journals (which usually charge huge subscription fees). It may be true that the journal you are involved with does little better than break even, but, as you will know, the IEEE publishes many journals, some with pretty wide circulation, and I would be considerably surprised if they do not make a good profit from their journal stable as a whole. This is certainly known to be true of the ACS journals, and of course the many academic journals published by commercial publishers make a profit (or at least are expected soon to do so).
And the difference between the final published format of a paper and the preprint format is often just a couple of keystrokes in the LaTeX file (which is freely available with the PDF version of the preprint). Comment out one line and uncomment another, and recompile it, and you’ve got something that looks like it came right out of the pages of the journal.
In the second cite, isn’t the Jounal with the date listed at the bottom of every page?
“International Journal of human Computer Interaction (IJHCI) ), Volume (3) : Issue (1) : 2012”
I’ve never seen a published article without the publication date, and most reprints or other reproductions of it have that date…otherwise you do have to look around a bit.
Apparently you are only familiar with the recent literature. Believe me, it used to be very common - if you go back far enough (a few decades) it was the norm - for bibliographic data not to printed on the paper itself. This, though, was in the days when the only way to look at a journal article was to have a physical copy of the journal in your hands, so you discovered those details by looking at the cover or the contents page. Putting the data on the individual paper itself was a response to technological advance: first of all photocopying, through which it became common to distribute copies of single articles rather than complete issues or volumes, and later electronic distribution via PDFs. Some journals, though, especially in the humanities, took a while to catch up with these advances, and only began including bibliographic data on the article itself quite recently. There may be a few holdouts even now.
But yeah, you are right about that gesture recognition paper. The bibliographic data is right there at the foot of every page. RaftPeople isn’t really trying here.
Clearly I missed that in my attempt to find examples. Those weren’t real ones I had encountered, just a quick google and selected a couple that appeared to follow the same pattern.
When I’m not just quickly trying to find examples I scrutinize the document in detail and typically the best I can do is find the most recent date of any reference.