Estimating the True Costs of Gold Open Access Publishing
Connotea Imports 2013-03-10
Summary:
Many estimates have been made of the true costs of Gold Open Access (OA) publishing (e.g., by Claudio Aspesi, in the discussion of Richard Poynder's recent article), but the estimates are rather arbitrary and unrealistic if the other causal factors that could raise or lower them are not taken into account.
The two most important causal factors are (1) Green OA and (2) institutions' subscription budgets...