The October issue of Walt Crawford's Cites & Insights is now online. In this issue, Walt has a section on CIPA and the following speculation: "If all current journal literature was replaced by open access 'author-fee' literature at $X per article, would that be an overall savings? I rarely see [this] question discussed. I suspect that the answer to [this] question is that if X is 500, there might be an overall saving --and if X is 1500, the total cost of scholarly article access would be higher. Given that $500 and $1,500 are the price points for today’s most prominent experiments in up-front financing, that’s significant."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/13/2003 01:20:00 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.
