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Economic Models What needs to be paid for? Peer Review Management File Management Printing Hard copy distribution Converting print to digital format (text & images) Online distribution Promotion Usage surveys/statistics. Economic models.
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Economic Models What needs to be paid for? Peer Review Management File Management Printing Hard copy distribution Converting print to digital format (text & images) Online distribution Promotion Usage surveys/statistics
Economic models Reader pays through subscriptions/licenses (eg most established printed journals) Author pays through page charges/handling charges; free to readers (eg BioMedCentral (BMC)) Institute/Society/University pays, through increasing charges for other services, advertising, subscription savings; free to readers (eg BMJ, online-only Bioline journals... ) Differential charges to different readers (eg BMC, HINARI programme, PERI programme…) Government or other grant (eg SciELO, Brazil); free to readers Free through institutional e-print archiving (arXive, increasing numbers of publications adopting this policy)