The UK Office of Fair Trading reported on The Market for Scientific, Technical and Medical Journals in 2002. I don't think the report has been posted to this list before now. It contains some useful facts about the STM market in the UK, and acknowledges the role of alternative models for scholarly publishing.
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Health Perspectives at 2/07/2003 04:14:00 AM.
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.