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Economics of scholarly communication in transition

Author(s) -

Heather Morrison

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

first monday

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533

H-Index - 70

eISSN - 1396-0466

pISSN - 1396-0458

DOI - 10.5210/fm.v18i6.4370

Subject(s) - publishing , scholarly communication , revenue , key (lock) , macro , transition (genetics) , economics , business , political science , finance , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , computer security , law , gene , programming language

Academic library budgets are the primary source of revenue for scholarly journal publishing. There is more than enough money in the budgets of academic libraries to fund a fully open access scholarly journal publishing system. Seeking efficiencies, such as a reasonable average cost per article, will be key to a successful transition. This article presents macro level economic data and analysis illustrating the key factors and potential for cost savings.

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