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 _________________________________________ Kathleen M. Folger, Electronic Resources Officer University of Michigan Library 312 Hatcher North Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 [log in to unmask] 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