Tight budgets affect scholarly information market - MARKET OVERVIEW - Research Information

"We are also likely to look back on 2009 as the year various emerging developments finally became mainstream, such as open-access publishing and e-books. Interest in open access has grown significantly in the last two years. This has been driven by demands for mandatory open-access publishing by research funding bodies, more investment in open-access publishing models by leading publishers, and increased understanding of open access among STM authors...."