RE: The App Store Effect

["Armbruster, Chris" <Chris.Armbruster@EUI.eu>]

What about the following key finding made by CIBER on behalf of 
RIN for the UK: "UK universities and colleges spent in excess of 
379.8m licensing electronic journals during 2006/07.  The level 
of use of these resources is enormous: almost 102 million 
articles were downloaded that year, at an average (direct) cost 
of 30.81."  [MOD:  POUNDS?]

I note that the price tag is below 1 GBP/EURO/USD per item. If 
these deals were turned into national licensing deals with public 
access it is possible that the average cost would fall further...

Anybody like to comment?

The full paper may be fournd at: 
http://www.rin.ac.uk/use-ejournals

The file is: 
Journal_spending_use_outcomes_CIBER_ejournals_working_paper.pdf

Chris Armbruster