Full open access to articles - with library savings of over 70%

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"At the PLoS average article processing fee of $1,649 U.S. per article, or BMC average article processing charge of $1,560 U.S., libraries worldwide could fund full open access to the world's estimated 1.5 million scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles produced every year at less than 30% of current annual global academic library journal expenditures....To download a spreadsheet with calculations, go to...."

Link:

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/09/full-open-access-to-articles-with.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.business_models oa.economics_of oa.journals

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 16:17

Date published:

09/28/2010, 19:23