Houghton Report on OA Cost/Benefits in Germany

Like previous Houghton Reports, this one has carefully compared unilateral and global cost/benefits for Gold Open Access Publishing and Green Open Access Self-Archiving. In this case, the options also included the German National License Program (NLP), a negotiated national site license providingGerman researchers with access to most of the journals they need. As it found in other countries, the Report finds that Green OA self-archiving provides the best benefit/cost ratio in Germany too...