Scholarly E-Journal Pricing Models
and Open Access Publishing
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed
SUMMARY. This article provides an overview and description of the
models being used to price electronic journals, reviews the development
of electronic journals, and briefly discusses the history of journal pricing.
The development and current situation of open-access scholarly publish-ing
are also discussed. Open access may provide needed relief to the
inexorable rise in journal prices, while increasing the impact of research
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KEYWORDS. Journal pricing, electronic journals, open access, open-access
publishing, pricing models
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed, MLS, AHIP (mwfreed@usc.edu) is Associate Director
for Collection Resources, Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California,
2003 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9130.
[Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Scholarly E-Journal Pricing Models and Open Access Publishing.”
Wineburgh-Freed, Maggie. Co-published simultaneously in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical
Libraries (The Haworth Information Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 4, No. 1/2, 2007,
pp. 15-24; and: Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries: Issues and Solutions (ed: Elizabeth Connor, and
M. Sandra Wood) The Haworth Information Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc., 2007, pp. 15-24.
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