Rewarding reviewers

["Mark Funk" <mefunk@med.cornell.edu>]

The editorial in the March issue of Nature Nanotechnology (3#3, 
2008, p,119: "Who'd be a referee?") talks about the efforts that 
journal reviewers put in: the average review takes about 8.6 
hours and is completed within 3-4 weeks, The last two paragraphs 
talk about changes in publishing, particularly open access. The 
last sentence caught my eye:

"For a fee, some publishers (but not Nature Publishing Group) are 
willing to make a paper open access, but authors of such papers 
would certainly be justified in asking to have the fees waived in 
return for refereeing."

Does any hybrid OA publisher reward their reviewers with waiving 
OA fees? It seems like the least they could do.

Mark Funk
Head, Resource Management - Collections
Weill Cornell Medical Library
New York, NY 10065-4805
mefunk@med.cornell.edu