Analysis reveals diverse perceptions on article costing in open access academic publishing, highlighting transparency issues.
In a recent post, I came up with a per-article costing figure, based on Ubiquity Press's economy of scale, for a learned society to go open access. I received two responses to the figure given. One said that it was extortionately high. The other queried whether it was perhaps unrealistically low. What are the real costs of scholarly communication? Often it is very hard for us to know.
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Martin Paul Eve (2014) studied this question.
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