http://news.sciencemag.org/economics/2014/06/how-much-did-your-university-pay-your-journals says: The results of their investigation, published on 16 June in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , reveal that some universities are paying nearly twice what universities of seemingly similar size and research output pay for access to the very same journals. For example, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, paid Elsevier $1.22 million in 2009 for a bundle of journals, while the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor—an almost identical university in staff size and number of Ph.D. students—paid $2.16 million for the same bundle. At Science ’s request, the authors even calculated a potential measure of how good or bad a deal U.S. universities are getting, providing a graphic view of the price spread. (AAAS, Science ’s publisher, offers bundled pricing for its three journals but was not included in the analysis.)
-- Ron
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