The costs and benefits to the research community of Open Access: A briefing paper

This briefing paper describes where the main costs lie in providing Open Access and in the traditional subscription-based system. It provides indicative costs for Green and Gold Open Access and summarises studies to date on the comparative costs of different systems of scholarly communication.

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Authors: Alma Swan
Publication year: 2016
Language: English (EN)
Level of knowledge: Introductory: no previous knowledge is required
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Audience

Librarians and Repository managers
Policy makers and Funders
Project Managers
Researchers and Students
Research Administration

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EU flag This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612425.
This project has also received funding from the European Union's Horizon2020 programme for research, technological development and demonstration under agreement no 741839.