The first page of the Morgan Stanley Equity Reseach report, Scientific Publishing: Knowledge is Power, has been summarized online by the UKSG Serials eNews. "Among the many useful statistics, one that jumped off the page for this reader was the fact that since 1986 the average price of a journal has risen by 215% while the number of journals purchased has fallen by only 5.1%."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/04/2002 07:58:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
