From: Kathleen Folger <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:32:55 -0500

I did a quick search in Ulrich's for all active journals that are
refereed/peer-reviewed and online. That brought up 30,164 titles.  I
exported the list but, unfortunately, the pricing info isn't formatted
in a way to make calculation easy. So, I just took the price of the
first 100 titles and then multiplied it by 301.64 and came up with a
total of $13.3M (USD)

Obviously there are lots and lots of caveats with that number, e.g.
the first 100 might not be a representative sample, it relies on
publishers to report the data, etc. Of the first 100 titles, 45 titles
had no price information--is that because they are open access or
because the publisher hasn't sent the info? So, $13.3M is a very
rough, back-of-the-envelope calculation.

-Kathleen

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Kathleen M. Folger, Electronic Resources Officer
University of Michigan Library
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:03 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:46:56 -0500
>
> I am hoping that the members of this list can assist in furthering a
> conversation I have been having with a colleague.
>
> The question is, How much would it cost to purchase a digital copy of
> every single peer-reviewed journal published in one year?
>
> The follow-on question is, How much would it cost to purchase all the
> backfiles in digital form, assuming they are all available?
>
> I have in mind journals in all fields.  Does anyone have an idea of
> how much this would come to?
>
> Joe Esposito