The “total cost of publication” in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1751-1766

  Pinfield, Stephen ^a   Salter, Jennifer ^a   Bath, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

open access publications; scholarly publishing; subscriptions

Indexed keywords

COSTS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; ADMINISTRATION COSTS; ADMINISTRATIVE COST; INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES; OPEN ACCESS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING; SUBSCRIPTIONS;

PUBLISHING;

FUNDING; MODEL; OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84973867731     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23446     Document Type: Article

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