Journal Cost-Effectiveness Search
- Searchable database of internationally-published journals and their price per article or citation.
- http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~mcafee/Journal/
Which is more expensive?
- Exhibit from the Vanderbilt University library.
- http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/jcosts/
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
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 acq
- http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/
StickerShock
- Comparative illustrations of the rising costs of scientific journals. From Cornell University's Engineering and Computer Science Library.
- http://www.englib.cornell.edu/exhibits/stickershock/
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
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/
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
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/