Journal Cost Issues Home Page > Society > Issues > Intellectual Property > Free Access Theory > Journal Cost Issues >     Related categories: » Top/Reference/Journals » Top/Reference/Libraries/Library and Information Science/Technical Services/Collection Development   Web Sites Issues in Scholarly Communication Detailed analysis on the journal crisis in academic publishing. "For many years, increases in the prices of library materials in all formats (including more recently electronic) have generally exceeded-sometimes significantly-increases in library acquisitions budgets. Libraries have worked hard to minimize the effects of this imbalance, but we are now reaching a point at which many institutions, including Cornell, are for this reason no longer able to provide access to some standard materials needed for instruction and research." From the Cornell University Library. http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/   Journal Cost-Effectiveness Search Searchable database of internationally-published journals and their price per article or citation. http://journalprices.com/   Red Tags Draw Attention to Cost of Journals Price tags on expensive periodicals at the Brown University science library. [The George Street Journal] http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/vol24/24GSJ19c.html   Show Me the Money: The Reality of Library Costs Compares the cost of print and electronic library resources to a variety of goods and services from our everyday lives. From the University of Maryland's Health Sciences and Human Services Library. http://www.hshsl.umaryland.edu/information/news/exhibits/money/index.html   SPARC The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition site provides information on alternative scholarly communication strategies, including affordable or open access journals and institutional repositories. http://www.arl.org/sparc/   Sticker Shock Examples of the cost of resources for the UCSF Libraries, with real world comparisons. http://www.library.ucsf.edu/research/scholcomm/stickershock.html   The Economics of Scholarly Journal Publication A survey on the market of scholarly journals with a case study and analyses from the field of ecology. http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publishing/   Which is more expensive? Exhibit from the Vanderbilt University library. http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/jcosts/     Journal Cost Issues

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