Pricey Cost per Page Hurts Humanities and Social-Science Journals - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Among some of the report's more intriguing findings: For publishers, the average cost per page of the eight humanities and social-science journals was $526, compared with $266 per page for science, technical, and medical journals....[T]he author-pays model of open-access publishing used by [some] publishers of science, technical, and medical journals 'is not currently a sustainable option' for the humanities and social-science journals studied."