Chapter 3. Money Matters: Fees and Potential Revenues

Authors

  • Walt Crawford

Abstract

Chapter 3  of Library Technology Reports (vol. 51, no. 6) Open Access Journals: Idealism and Opportunism
This chapter looks at a large subset of gold OA journals: those that charge some form of fee. The chapter shows ranges of fees in some detail and, for less detailed ranges, journals and articles at various fee levels in broad subject areas. It also shows maximum potential revenue for journals in 2013, overall and in topical areas.

Author Biography

Walt Crawford

Walt Crawford writes, researches, and occasionally speaks on issues related to libraries, technology, policy, and media. He has written sixteen books published by ALA Editions; Information Today, Inc.; G. K. Hall; and others, beginning with MARC for Library Use and including most recently Successful Social Networking in Public Libraries (ALA Editions, 2014) and The Librarian’s Guide to Micropublishing (ITI, 2013). He has also published a free e-journal/newsletter since 2001, Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, and self-published several library research projects. Crawford was a Senior Analyst at RLG for four decades. He previously wrote Library Technology Reports vol. 50, no. 4, “Big-Deal Serial Purchasing: Tracking the Damage.”

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Published

2015-08-27

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 6 (2015): August/September

Section

Chapters