On the Marginal Cost of Scholarly Communication. Tiffany Bogich, et al. Science.ai by Standard Analytics. 18 April, 2016.
An article that looks at the marginal cost of scholarly communication from the perspective of an
agent looking to start an independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. It found that vendors can accommodate all of the services
required for scholarly communication for between $69 and
$318 per article, and with alternate software
solutions replacing the vendor services, the marginal cost
of scholarly communication would drop to between $1.36 and $1.61 per article, almost all of which is the cost of DOI registration. The development of high quality “plug-and-play” open
source software solutions would have a significant impact in reducing
the marginal cost of scholarly communication, making it more open to
experimentation and innovation. For the cost of long term journal preservation, the article looked at CLOCKSS and Portico.
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