From: Pippa Smart <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:52:27 +0000 However - a word of caution ... these prices use the list price which is not what most universities pay! Pippa ***** Pippa Smart Research Communication and Publishing Consultant PSP Consulting 3 Park Lane, Appleton, Oxon OX13 5JT, UK email: [log in to unmask] Web: www.pspconsulting.org **** On 8 November 2012 02:10, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:17:28 +0000 > > The site at http://www.journalprices.com/ appears to let you calculate > price per article > > Sally Morris > South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU > Email: [log in to unmask] > > -----Original Message----- > > 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 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> 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