Free Labor for Costly Journals

摘要: There is a remarkable difference between the prices that commercial publishers charge to libraries for economics journals and charged by professional societies university presses. This price does not reflect in quality. The six most-cited listed Social Science Citation Index are all nonprofit journals, their library subscription average about $180 per year. Only five of 20 owned publishers, these $1660 Tables 1 2 compare costs measures cost-effectiveness ten page times as high citation 16 journals. In 2, first column shows year 2001 second (calculated dividing number pages published 2000). third reports citation. divided articles this journal were cited 1998, recorded Index. fourth column, recent citation, 1996 1997 volumes 1998. rank found ranking according was differences similar less prestigious I have assembled data