Hardin Scholarly Communication News

The Wellcome Trust has published "Costs and business models of scientific publishing," available at: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/images/costs_business_7955.pdf . The report shows that that publishing a paper in the traditional way costs between £800 and £1,500 (US $1,427 and $2,677). With open access, the cost is £550 to £1,100 (US $981 to $1,963). The report shows open access is an efficient, affordable and high quality model sustainable for the long term, according to Dr. Mark Walport in a summary of the report in the Financial Times (April 30, 2004). Another article about the Wellcome Report is “Open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing,” by Susan Mayor, available at
<http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7448/1094-d>.