Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change (18 Jan 2004)

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Open access to scientific publications - an analysis of the barriers to change (18 Jan 2004)
The key issue is that the there is very little competition in this industry and that the pricing schemes depend much more on each customer's willingness (and capacity) to pay, than on the production prices. Thus, it is today more or less as expensive for university libraries and individual subscribers to access this material over the Internet as before in paper format. The serials crisis, the long period of rises in subscription prices that started in the 1970s, continues.

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