Substituting Article Processing Charges for Subscriptions: The Cure Is Worse than the Disease | Association of Research Libraries

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-07-23

Summary:

"The likely result of flipping the market to APCs is that the collective cost of scholarly communications would rise above the level that would prevail under the subscription-financed regime."

Link:

http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/substituting-apcs-for-subscriptions-20july2016.pdf

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Tags:

oa.new oa.fees oa.conversions oa.business_models oa.economics_of oa.publishers oa.publishing oa.costs oa.gold oa.libraries oa.negative oa.obstacles oa.monopoly oa.predatory oa.p&t oa.journals

Date tagged:

07/23/2016, 18:52

Date published:

07/23/2016, 14:52