Open Access versus Traditional Journal Pricing: Using a Simple "Platform Market" Model to Understand Which Will Win (and Which Should)

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-19

  McCabe, Mark J ^a,b,c   Snyder, Christopher M ^d,e   Fagin, Anna ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^d Dartmouth College   (United States)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; For profit; Journal pricing; Non profit; Open access; Platforms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872445610     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2012.11.035     Document Type: Article

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