Economics of scholarly communication in transition | Morrison | First Monday

peter.suber's bookmarks 2013-06-03

Summary:

"Academic library budgets are the primary source of revenue for scholarly journal publishing. There is more than enough money in the budgets of academic libraries to fund a fully open access scholarly journal publishing system. Seeking efficiencies, such as a reasonable average cost per article, will be key to a successful transition. This article presents macro level economic data and analysis illustrating the key factors and potential for cost savings."

Link:

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4370

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Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.universities oa.libraries oa.costs oa.librarians oa.budgets oa.colleges oa.economics_of oa.conversions oa.hei oa.journals

Date tagged:

06/03/2013, 14:06

Date published:

06/03/2013, 09:39