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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Membership in the North American Association of Sports Economists
David Berri gives us the lowdown:
Here are the membership details. Membership costs $50 per year. For this membership one receives an entire year of the Journal of Sports Economics (JSE costs $30 while membership is technically just $20 per year). JSE is the first academic journal in the field of sports economics. Like many academic journals, the per-issue cost can be quite high. According to Sage (the company that publishes JSE), one issue of JSE costs $22. So if one was to purchase a year of JSE – or six issues – one would be paying $132. Membership in JSE reduces that price substantially.
Six issues of JSE in 2008 contained – by my count – 37 original articles (and 670 pages of content). So if you look at the cost per article, membership in NAASE results in a cost of less than $1 per article. Again, quite a bargain (by academic standards). One should note that academic journals do not pay authors (and NAASE doesn’t pay its President either). So the money you pay to the JSE does not end up with the authors who publish in the journal (I am not sure where the money goes, but I can assure you it doesn’t go to the researchers).
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