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
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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
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