NeuroDojo: Cost of Elsevier journals by university enrolment

pontika.nancy@gmail.com's bookmarks 2014-07-22

Summary:

"Tim Gowers has a long post on the cost of Elsevier journals. My contribution to the discussion is to plot data he showed in tables relating Elsevier subscription costs (bundles of journals) to university enrolment. Whether university enrollment is the right predictor for subscription costs is a good question, but one that should be directed at Gowers, not me! I just plotted the data. Here are the data for American universities (dashed line in linear regression, dotted lines are 95% confidence intervals, and a couple of outliers labeled). You can click to enlarge ... Due to a request, here’s both countries plotted on the same graph. I converted pounds to American dollars using the current exchange rate onXE.com.  Now we can see that despite huge differences in enrolment, the price being paid by Cambridge and Arizona for the bundle of Elsevier journals are... not that different ..."

Link:

http://neurodojo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/cost-of-elsevier-journals-by-university.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » pontika.nancy@gmail.com's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.comment oa.elsevier oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.prices oa.usa oa.uk oa.universities oa.colleges oa.libraries oa.librarians ru.sparc oa.hei

Date tagged:

07/22/2014, 04:59

Date published:

07/22/2014, 00:59