The site at  http://www.journalprices.com/ appears to let you calculate
price per article

Sally


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From: Laval Hunsucker <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:51:52 -0800

> Someone somewhere must have done the sums - surely[.]

How about Bergstrom and McAfee's "Journal Cost-Effectiveness"- site (
http://www.journalprices.com/ ) ( currently :  2004-2011 ) ?

Maybe it's appropriate to remember here, as well, things like Tenopir and
King's "cost per article reading"-approach ( _Towards electronic journals :
realities for scientists, librarians, and publishers_ (Special Libraries
Association, 2000) ;  King et al., "Library economic metrics:
examples of the comparison of electronic and print journal collections and
collection services", _Library trends 51.3 ( Winter 2003 ), p.376- 400 ). --
And, following along, Holmström's "The cost per article reading of open
access articles" in _D-Lib Magazine_ 10.1 ( January
2004 ).

Does any of this help ?

Laval Hunsucker
Breukelen, Nederland


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> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>:
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:16:26 +0000
>
> Sorry Joe and everyone else. I was not referring to APC costs (which 
> have gone up and also gone down depending on the publisher) but to 
> costs per article for libraries under the subscription model over the 
> last few decades. We know the costs of journals has gone up but we 
> also know that the number of articles in the journals have increased. 
> The cost per article to libraries is an indication is a better 
> indication of wickedness among publishers than the cost per journal 
> unless you believe as some seem to do that it is in the interest of 
> publishers to fill journals with a lot of rubbish which will have a 
> very bad effect on impact factors. Someone somewhere must have done 
> the sums - surely
>
> Anthony