Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles (10 Jan 2004) The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. The traditional subscription based publishing model is compared with the open access model, and similarities are identified and used when calculating CPR for the two different types of publishing. Challenges with interpreting statistics are discussed as well as the difficulty of estimating the number of readings from the number of downloaded articles. Finally, the potential use and implications of the CPR measure for open access publishers and institutions are discussed. Article URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january04/holmstrom/01holmstrom.html Read 41 more articles from D-Lib Magazine sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Dear Aunt Fern This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy