RE: Fuding OA

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

Richard

1. I don't know about subscriptions, but the NIH estimates that it spends
'over $30 million annually in direct costs for publication and other page
charges in grants to its investigators.'
(http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html)

2. Publishers are rather coy about costs, but estimates of paper, printing
and distribution costs put them at about 25% of total costs. (See, for
example, http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtd003184.pdf)

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
E-mail:  david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Feinman
Sent: 09 August 2005 01:29
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Fuding OA

Everybody seems to agree that the key component of progress on OA is
funding. I have largely been an observer on the this issue, so forgive any
repetition.  It seems to me that a first step is to describe the flow of
money at the current time and ask how it might be re-routed or modified to
provide better access.  Again, apologies if this has already be discussed
but two questions that seem to be relevant:

1. Is there information on how much NIH grant money goes for publication:  
page charges, subscriptions, etc.?

2. What is the additional cost of printing a journal where the articles
are already online, in pdfs or whatever?

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Richard D. Feinman
Department of Biochemistry
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY 11203