From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:37:52 -0500

Commissioned earlier this year by London Higher and SPARC Europe, a
report called "Counting the Costs of Open Access" has been released in
the UK.  It aims to estimate the cost to UK research organizations of
complying with RCUK and HEFC OA mandates.  According to this report,
the cost to research institutions was £9.2M, on APCs of around £11M -
or 83% of the costs of the APCs themselves.  The report breaks down
the £9.2, analyzes the reasons for the high compliance costs (among
them, scale and early-days issues), and concludes that there is scope
to realize efficiencies.  Worth a detour outside the UK as well.

PDF Report, 31 pages

http://www.researchconsulting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Research-Consulting-Counting-the-Costs-of-OA-Final.pdf