Some figures to remember315%: the average price increase of subscriptions for universities between 1986 and 2003, while inflation was only 68% for the same period.
US $1.1 billion: profits earned by the publisher Elsevier in 2011, a profit margin of around 35%.
Between $7 and $8 million: the cost of electronic subscriptions for Université de Montréal libraries, representing around 80% of the acquisitions budget.
US $24,047: the price of a yearly subscription to the journal Brain Research.
7,000: the number of open access scholarly journals.
80%: the proportion of journals worldwide allowing authors to deposit their articles in an open access repository or on their personal websites.
19 million: the number of pages visited since the creation of the Érudit platform in 1998, whose content is 90% open access.
375,000: the number of theses and dissertations downloaded from Papyrus, the institutional repository of Université de Montréal, in 2011.