From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 18:25:24 -0400

Jevin West, Ted Bergstrom, Carl Bergstrom.  Cost Effectiveness of Open
Access Publications.

http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1132&context=ted_bergstrom

To be published in Fall 2014:  Economic Inquiry 52.4 (2014)

[A journal from Western Economic Association & Wiley]

Abstract

Open access publishing has been proposed as one possible solution to
the serials crisis—the rapidly growing subscription prices in
scholarly journal publishing. How- ever, open access publishing can
present economic pitfalls as well, such as excessive article
processing charges. We discuss the decision that an author faces when
choosing to submit to an open access journal. We develop an
interactive tool to help authors compare among alternative open access
venues and thereby get the most for their article processing charges.

SEE ALSO:  Previous Bergstrom et al article about price of journal
bundles, as per LIBLICENSE-l June 27th, 2014:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/06/11/1403006111.full.pdf+html