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Journal Costs: Journal Publishing as Part of a Society’s Operations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Peter B. Boyce
Peter B. Boyce*
Affiliation:
American Astronomical Society

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Scientific Societies have a broad range of goals, all aimed at advancing their area of science. Journal publishing is but one important task of a society. Subscription prices are normally set within the broad context of all the society’s programs. By using a normalization procedure it is possible to evaluate the relative costs and effectiveness of journals. Normalized costs to libraries of scientific journals vary by nearly 100-fold. In general, society published journals are very cost effective.

Type
Part 2. Publication and Acquisition of Books and Journals
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 110: Library and Information Services in Astronomy , 1989 , pp. 45 - 47
Copyright
Copyright © United States Naval Observatory 1989

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