Alex.Holcombe@sydney.edu.au@ceptional

http://www.slideshare.net/holcombea/

Subscription costs versus open access

costs, &

Dissolving journals' boundaries

26 August, 2015 Reclaiming the Knowledge Commons

http://shiny.retr0.me/journal_costs/

https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/four-reasons-to-oppose-the-use-of-elseviers-services-for-the-medical-journal-of-australia/

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$1,350USD / article for PLoS ONE~$6,000USD / article for Elsevier http://poynder.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/open-access-brick-by-brick.html#comments

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$1350 USD per article for PLoS ONE$3983 USD per article for Elsevier $1850 USD for JoV?~$300 USD for PeerJ

$10,780 per article (not including charges for color figures)

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JOURNAL / PUBLISHER COST per article (USD) ACCESS

Subscription

Gold OA

Gold OA

Gold OA$99, per author Gold OA

Free OA$0

• ~5,000 journals use Open Journal Systems (http://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/24/41

• Most free for both authors and readers• Journal of Eye Movement Research,

24 articles/year one day of work per week for the chief editor

no-Gold, free OA

Green, free OA

Open access to 1,066,153 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, …

any publication arising from NHMRC supported research must be deposited into an open access institutional repository and/or made available in another open access format within a twelve month period from the date of publication.

Green, free OA

https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants-funding/policy/nhmrc-open-access-policy

Article borders dissolve:

Data, commentary, replication, re-analyses