Open access will levy uneven tolls on institutions, study contends

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"[A] paper by two economists suggests that "gold" open access, under which the author pays for publication and the article is made freely available, could be costly for research-intensive institutions, while benefiting those that do little research....If [subscriptions were] replaced with a gold open-access model, the costs incurred would be in proportion to the number of papers published, so the most research-active institutions would pay a lot, while the less productive would pay little...."

Link:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417266&c=1

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.costs oa.fees oa.economics_of oa.misunderstandings

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:47

Date published:

09/01/2011, 08:44