We understand that effective scholarly communication costs money, and support substantial investment in this endeavor, but only if it allows everyone to freely access and use the scholarly literature.
How much of a problem is the rising expense of scholarly journals, which now cost Princeton $9 million a year — more than a third of the acquisitions budget?
The library's budget is growing, but its librarians are still slashing their serials and book buying just to meet the sharply rising cost of scholarly journals in fields like science, technology, medicine, law and economics.
Reading it is essential for anyone who believes that education is an important, empowering, and democratizing force in the modern world, and that substantial economic efficiencies could be garnered by sharing educational content and scholarly materials at minimal cost through the World Wide Web.
This case study suggests and evaluates one such method for discovery of open access and other cost-free scholarly monographs produced in Latin America.
"As part of the Association's efforts to foster a more transparent and cost-effective scholarly publishing system, EUA would like to commission a study to explore possible scenarios for new 'Open Access' publishing agreement models.
At a time when budget-strapped university libraries nationwide are struggling to keep pace with rising subscription costs for scholarly publications, Berkeley is exploring alternative routes to the unfettered pursuit of knowledge.
Further research could undertake a similar endeavour in the 100 other countries (McIntosh, 2014) which have FOI laws, in order to work towards understanding the costs of scholarly communication on a global scale.
This task is risky, of course, and has cost many a scholarly life.
Most of the cost in producing scholarly writings comes before anything is printed on paper, through expenses like hiring people for peer review.
Frustrated by the high cost of accessing scholarly journals, Swartz allegedly stole millions of academic articles from the nonprofit online database JSTOR by breaking into computer networks at M.I.T., prosecutors said.
