[GOAL] Libertas Academica: average APC price increases range from 18% to 56%

[Heather Morrison]

Libertas Academica posts pricing in 3 currencies; this results in 3 different average price increases, 18% for USD, 56% for Japanese Yen and 21% in Euros. These price increases are on already substantial prices. For example, journals with APCs of $1,699 USD in 2014 are now $1,848 (9% increase). Journals that were $950 USD in 2014 are now $1,699 USD (79% increase). These price increases are far above inflation and match or exceed the high serial price increases of the previous century.

For details and a link to the dataset:
http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/15/libertas-academica-average-18-to-56-price-increase-2015-over-2014/

5 of the 81 titles published by Libertas Academica are not found today. It is not clear how readers are expected to discover content published in these journals.

best,

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Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
Desmarais 111-02
613-562-5800 ext. 7634
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship
http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca<mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>


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