“A move to open access publishing could potentially bring system savings of around £215 million per annum in the UK, according to a report on the costs and benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models. John Houghton of the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University is the lead author of the report Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits, reporting to JISC, the UK Joint Information Systems Commission in January 2009. Three publishing models are analysed in the report …” (more)
[Aoife Geraghty, Read Around Research, 13 May]