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... Steven Heller also suggested cutting sales and marketing staff to save money. However, funding agencies could also THE PRICE TAG FOR BUYING JOURNALS contribute to lowering journal prices, Reed pointed out, and The cost of journals has risen sharply in the past years, he listed some ideas to cut costs.
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From page 13...
... "So the profit motive adds to the cost of health care and doesn't There are several different payment models for financ ing journal publication -- library pays or subscription model, author pays, pay per view, and a combination of any of the 1For more explanation of the data and more recent statistical analysis, above, possibly with page or color charges. Participants see the Association of Research Libraries web site at www.arl.org.
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From page 14...
... He said that this revenue benefits the UK trade balance, UK employment, chemical Author Pays sciences worldwide (because the RSC acts worldwide) , and Another model for financing journal publication is an is overall good for the UK contribution to developing and up-front payment by authors, but problems arise with this supporting the chemical sciences.
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From page 15...
... If larger Hammes said that the Journal of Biological Chemistry commercial publishers are removed from that equation -- has been giving free access to its files after six months for Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer, which make up about 25 per- several years and has not lost money. He added that the cent of the articles and about three-quarters of expendi- number of subscriptions has gone down, but in the same way tures -- the cost drops to about $400 per article.
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From page 16...
... company works through the purchasing organization Global Strategic Sourcing to obtain access to these journals though, COST STRUCTURE OF STM JOURNALS which can be a challenge. "There is a little bit of a learning curve there for them to understand and accept that there are Editors from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the not four different companies out there waiting to sell you American Physical Society and the Public Library of access to Tetrahedron, there is one and you have to deal with Science, shared details and challenges of the cost structure that," she said.
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From page 17...
... Blume compared the cost of the APS-all package- Public Library of Science which encompasses Physical Review A, B, C, D, E, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics -- for a par- Siegel talked about the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ticular large institution in 1988 and 2004.
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