Yale Libraries Pull Out of BioMed Central Over Cost of Publication
Citing rapidly rising costs, the science and medical libraries of Yale University are stopping paying for faculty members’ articles to be published by BioMed Central, one of the two largest open-access publishers. (The university is keeping its membership in the Public Library of Science, the other well-known open-access publisher.)
The libraries paid BioMed Central less than $4,700 in 2005, but in 2006 had to pay $31,625, to publish articles in the journals, which are all freely available online. “This experiment in open-access publishing has proved unsustainable,” wrote Ann Okerson, R. Kenny Marone, and David Stern, of the Yale libraries.
Read more: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2294
Related: Yale Blog announcement
The Wired Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 Aug 2007
