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...."