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Trends in journal prices: an analysis of selected journals, 2000-2006

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posted on 2008-02-21, 16:56 authored by Claire Creaser, Sonya White
This paper presents summary results from an analysis of the institutional subscription prices for journals in biomedical and social sciences, for a selection of eleven publishers. Overall price, price per page and price per point of impact factor have been examined between 2000 and 2006. Considerable variation was found between publishers both in their overall levels of price and in the rates of increase observed over the period. There is some evidence that not-for- profit publishers may, on average, offer better value for money in terms of price per page and price per point of impact factor, but this is far from conclusive.

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  • Science

Department

  • Information Science

Citation

CREASER, C. and WHITE, S., 2008. Trends in journal prices: an analysis of selected journals, 2000-2006. Learned Publishing, 21 (3), pp. 214-224.

Publication date

2008-02-21T16:56:40Z

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This is a pre-print electronic version of an article published in Learned Publishing [© Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers]: CREASER, C. and WHITE, S., 2008. Trends in journal prices : an analysis of selected journals, 2000-2006. Learned publishing, 21 (3), pp. 214-224. The definitive version is available at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2008/00000021/00000003/art00008

ISSN

0953-1513;1741-4857

Language

  • en