1 Economic Issues

Anglada, Lluis, and Nuria Comellas. "What's Fair? Pricing Models in the Electronic Era." Library Management 23, nos. 4/5 (2002): 227-233.

Bannerman, Ian. "Pricing On-line Journals." Serials 11 (March 1998): 23-26.

Bauer, Kathleen. "Cost Analysis of a Project to Digitize Classic Articles in Neurosurgery." Journal of the Medical Library Association 90 (April 2002): 230-234. [Acrobat file]

Bennett, Scott. "Just-in-Time Scholarly Monographs." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4, no. 1 (1998). [HTML file]

Besser, Howard. "Digital Image Distribution: A Study of Costs and Uses." D-Lib Magazine 5 (October 1999). [HTML file]

Bide, Mark, Charles Oppenheim, and Anne Ramsden. "Charging Mechanisms for Digitized Texts." Learned Publishing 11 (April 1998): 109-118.

Blixrud, Julia C., and Timothy D. Jewell. "Understanding Electronic Resources and Library Materials Expenditures: An Incomplete Picture." ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions, no. 197 (April 1998): 12-13. [HTML file]

Bonn, Maria. "Benchmarking Conversion Costs: A Report from the Making of America IV Project." RLG DigiNews 5, no. 5 (2001). [HTML file]

Bonn, Maria S., Wendy P. Lougee, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, and Juan F. Riveros. "A Report on the Peak Experiment: Context and Design." D-Lib Magazine 5 (June 1999). [HTML file]

Bot, Marjolein, Johan Burgemeester, and Hans Roes. "The Cost of Publishing an Electronic Journal: A General Model and a Case Study." D-Lib Magazine (November 1998). [HTML file]

Bowen, William G. "JSTOR and the Economics of Scholarly Communication." Journal of Library Administration 26, nos. 1/2 (1998): 27-44.

Boyce, Peter B. "Costs, Archiving and the Publishing Process in Electronic STM Journals." Against the Gain 10 (December 1998-January 1999): 24-25.

Butler, Meredith A., and Bruce R. Kingma. The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1996.

Byrd, Sam, Glenn Courson, Elizabeth Roderick, and Jean Marie Taylor. "Cost/Benefit Analysis for Digital Library Projects: The Virginia Historical Inventory Project (VHI)." The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 14, no. 2 (2001): 65-75.

Chen, Frances L., Paul Wrynn, and Judith L. Rieke. "Electronic Journal Access: How Does It Affect the Print Subscription Price?" Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 89 (October 2001): 363-371. [Acrobat file]

Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Stephen R. Lawrence. "Comparing Library Resource Allocations for the Paper and the Digital Library: An Exploratory Study." D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 12 (2003). [HTML file]

Day, Colin. "The Economics of Electronic Publishing: Some Preliminary Thoughts." In Gateways, Gatekeepers, and Roles in the Information Omniverse: Proceedings of the Third Symposium, ed. Ann Okerson and Dru Mogge, 77-84. Washington, DC: Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries, 1994. [HTML file]

________. "The Economics of Publishing: The Consequences of Library and Research Copying." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (December 1999): 1346-1349.

________. "Pricing Electronic Products." In Filling the Pipeline and Paying the Piper: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium, ed. Ann Okerson, 51-56. Washington, DC: Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries, 1995.

Fisher, Janet H. "Comparing Electronic Journals to Print Journals: Are There Savings?" In Technology and Scholarly Communication, ed. Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt, 95-101. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

________. "The True Costs of an Electronic Journal." Serials Review 21, no. 1 (1995): 88-90.

Fox, Peter. "Archiving of Electronic Publications—Some Thoughts on Cost." Learned Publishing 15 (January 2002): 3-5.

Frey, Kelly L. "Business Models and Pricing Issues in the Digital Domain." Journal of Library Administration 24, no. 4 (1997): 27-37.

Getz, Malcolm. "Electronic Publishing: An Economic View." Serials Review 18, nos. 1-2 (1992): 25-31.

________. "Evaluating Digital Strategies for Storing and Retrieving Scholarly Information." Journal of Library Administration 24, no. 4 (1997): 81-98.

Ginn, Claire. "Calculating Pricing Models Choices: Rising to the Challenge." Learned Publishing 15 (July 2002): 199-203.

Green, Toby. "Can the Monograph Help Solve the Library 'Serials' Funding Crisis?" Serials 15, no. 2 (2002): 135-139.

Grycz, Czeslaw Jan. "Economic Models for Networked Information." Serials Review 18, nos. 1-2 (1992): 11-18.

Halliday, Leah, and Charles Oppenheim. "Comparison and Evaluation of Some Economic Models of Digital-Only Journals." Journal of Documentation 56 (November 2000): 660-673.

________. "Economic Models of Digital-Only Journals." Serials 13 (July 2000): 59-65.

Hardy, Rachel, Charles Oppenheim, and Iris Rubbert. "PELICAN: A Pricing Mechanism for Electronic Distribution of Materials to the Higher Education Community." Learned Publishing 14 (April 2001): 93-96.

Harnad, Stevan. "Electronic Scholarly Publication: Quo Vadis?" Serials Review 21, no. 1 (1995): 78-80. [HTML file]

Haar, John M. "Project PEAK: Vanderbilt's Experience with Articles on Demand." The Serials Librarian 38, nos. 1/2 (2000): 91-99.

Holmes, Aldyth. "Electronic Publishing in Science: Reality Check." Canadian Journal of Communication 22, nos. 3/4 (1997): 105-116.

Holmstrom, Jonas. "The Cost Per Article Reading of Open Access Articles." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 1 (2004). [HTML file]

________. "The Return on Investment of Electronic Journals—It Is a Matter of Time." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 4 (2004). [HTML file]

Houghton, John W. "Crisis and Transition: The Economics of Scholarly Communication." Learned Publishing 14 (July 2001): 167-176.

Hunter, Karen. "The Effect of Price: Early Observations." In Technology and Scholarly Communication, ed. Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt, 145-157. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Kahin, Brian, and Hal R. Varian, eds. Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Keyhani, Andrea. "Innovations in Cost Recovery." In Filling the Pipeline and Paying the Piper: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium, ed. Ann Okerson, 57-65. Washington, DC: Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries, 1995.

Kiernan, Vincent. "Paying by the Article: Libraries Test a New Model for Scholarly Journals." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 August 1998, A21-A22.

King, Donald W. "Some Economic Aspects of the Internet." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49 (September 1998): 990-1002.

King, Donald W., Peter B. Boyce, Carol Hansen Montgomery, and Carol Tenopir. "Library Economic Metrics: Examples of the Comparison of Electronic and Print Journal Collections and Collection Services." Library Trends 51, no. 3 (2003): 376-400.

King, Donald W., and Jose-Marie Griffiths. "Economic Issues Concerning Electronic Publishing and Distribution of Scholarly Articles." Library Trends 43 (Spring 1995): 713-740.

King, Donald W., and Carol Tenopir. "Evolving Journal Costs: Implications for Publishers, Libraries, and Readers." Learned Publishing 12 (October 1999): 251-258.

Kingma, Bruce R. "The Costs of Print, Fiche, and Digital Access: The Early Canadiana Online Project." D-Lib Magazine 6 (February 2000). [HTML file]

Lesk, Michael. "Pricing Electronic Information." Serials Review 18, nos. 1-2 (1992): 38-40.

Lustig, Harry. "Electronic Publishing: Economic Issues in a Time of Transition." Astrophysics and Space Science 247, nos. 1-2 (1997): 117-132.

Lynch, Clifford A. "Scholarly Communication in the Networked Environment: Reconsidering Economics and Organizational Missions." Serials Review 20, no. 3 (1994): 23-30.

Mackie-Mason, Jeffrey K., and Alexandra L. L. Jankovich. "PEAK: Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge." Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 21, no. 3 (1997): 281-295.

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K., Juan F. Riveros, Maria S. Bonn, and Wendy P. Lougee. "A Report on the PEAK Experiment: Usage and Economic Behavior." D-Lib Magazine 5 (July/August 1999). [HTML file]

Marks, Robert H. "The Economic Challenges of Publishing Electronic Journals." Serials Review 21, no. 1 (1995): 85-88.

Meadows, Jack, David Pullinger, and Peter Such. "The Cost of Implementing an Electronic Journal." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 26 (July 1995): 167-173.

Metz, Paul, and Paul M. Gherman. "Serials Pricing and the Role of the Electronic Journal." College & Research Libraries 52 (July 1991): 315-327.

Meyer, Richard W. "Monopoly Power and Electronic Journals." The Library Quarterly 67 (October 1997): 325-349.

Montgomery, Carol Hansen. "Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs." D-Lib Magazine (October 2000). [HTML file]

________. "Print to Electronic: Measuring the Operational and Economic Implications of an Electronic Journal Collection." Learned Publishing 15 (April 2002): 129-136.

Montgomery, Carol Hansen, and Donald W. King. "Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections: A First Step Towards a Comprehensive Analysis." D-Lib Magazine 8 (October 2002). [HTML file]

Odlyzko, Andrew. "The Economics of Electronic Journals." First Monday 2, no. 8 (1997). [HTML file]

Okerson, Ann. "A Librarian's View of Some Economic Issues in Electronic Scientific Publishing." Paper presented at the UNESCO Invitational Meeting on the Future of Scientific Information, Paris, February 1996. [HTML file]

Oppenheim, Charles. "Will PELICAN Fly?" Serials 15 (July 2002): 105-109.

Peters, Paul Evan. "Cost Centers and Measures in the Networked Information Value-Chain." Journal of Library Administration 26, nos. 1/2 (1998): 203-212.

Quandt, Richard E. "Scholarly Materials: Paper or Digital?" Library Trends 51, no. 3 (2003): 349-375.

Rhind-Tutt, Stephen. "What a Tangled Web We Weave: A Review of Pricing Models and the Forces That Drive Them." Against the Grain 10 (February 1998): 24, 26-28.

Robnett, Bill. "Online Journal Pricing." The Serials Librarian 33, nos. 1/2 (1998): 55-69

Scholarly Communication and Technology. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1997. [HTML file]

Schonfeld, Roger C., Donald W. King, Ann Okerson, and Eileen Gifford Fenton. "Library Periodicals Expenses: Comparison of Non-Subscription Costs of Print and Electronic Formats on a Life-Cycle Basis." D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 1 (2004). [HTML file]

Scigliano, Marisa. "Consortium Purchases: Case Study for a Cost-Benefit Analysis." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 28, no. 6 (2002): 393-399.

Sens, Jean-Mark. "Moving Digits in Serials Life." Library Philosophy and Practice 6, no. 1 (2003). [HTML file]

Sosteric, Mike. "Electronic Journals: The Grand Information Future?" Electronic Journal of Sociology 2, no. 2 (1996). [HTML file]

Sosteric, Mike, Yuwei Shi, and Olivier Wenker. "Electronic First: The Upcoming Revolution in the Scholarly Communication System." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 7 (December 2001): [HTML file]

Stern, David. "Pricing Models: Past, Present, and Future." The Serials Librarian 36, nos. 1/2 (1999): 301-319.

________. "Pricing Models and Payment Schemes for Library Collections." ONLINE 26 (September/October 2002): 54-59.

Stoller, Michael, Robert Christopherson, and Michael Miranda. "The Economics of Professional Journal Pricing." College & Research Libraries 57 (January 1996): 9-21.

Tanner, Simon, and Marilyn Deegan. "Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage in Europe." D-Lib Magazine 9, no. 5 (2003). [HTML file]

Varian, Hal R. The Information Economy: The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues. Berkeley: School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley, 1994-2001. [HTML file]

________. "Pricing Electronic Journals." D-Lib Magazine (June 1996). [HTML file]

Varian, Hal R., and Brian Kahin. Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000.

Willinsky, John. "Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing." Journal of Digital information 4, no. 2 (2003). [HTML file]

See also: 7 New Publishing Models; 8.1 Publisher Issues: Digital Rights Management; and 9 Repositories, E-Prints, and OAI.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-2004.