What Are the Costs of an Open Access Monograph? › Hybrid Publishing Lab Notepad - 0 views
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Kevin Stranack on 31 Jul 14"Although the official press release highlights that "Open Access publishing has no negative effect on book sales, and increases online usage and discovery considerably" (which is, in my opinion, only a snapshot which will sooner or later lose validity in the course of the ongoing digitalization of the academic book market), the most interesting and valuable outcomes of the pilot arise from the attempt to quantify and itemize the costs of an OA monograph."