From: Arthur Norli Olsen <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:59:09 +0000 Regarding the original question, it is of course difficult to estimate how many toll access peer reviewed journal of reasonable quality that exist in the world. Ulrich lists 47,219 journals as being peer reviewed in all languages. The number of open access journals is growing rapidly, DOAJ lists over 10,000. At my university, University of Agder in Southern Norway, we have access to about 22,000 unique electronic journals that we have acquired access to in a number of ways: * Big deals via national consortia that cover the largest commercial publishers ( Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Sage etc) and Project Muse * About 300 individual electronic subscriptions * Access via aggregators like EBSCO, JSTOR and Proquest that often do not offer access to the latest volumes There is a large amount of overlap in titles especially because of the full text databases from aggregators. As a young university with a small number of historical print subscriptions, the price we pay for the major big deals is quite low in comparison to what a large research intensive university with extensive historical holdings in print would pay. Total costs for all electronic journal access in 2015 is about 700,000 USD. Costs for 11,500 journals that we have access to directly from the publisher is about 500,000 USD. Our usage is quite a bit lower than at a more research intensive universities in the US or UK so I believe our average cost per use is relatively high at around 3,50 USD pr full text download. The number of students is about 7,500 FTE with 600 faculty members Best Wishes Arthur N. Olsen -------------------------------- Arthur N. Olsen Academic Librarian Subject Librarian Information Systems Agder University Library Kristiansand, Norway Telephone: +4738141372 Cell Phone: +4792608189 E-mail: [log in to unmask] -----------------------------------