pnas journal

Carl T. Bergstrom and Theodore C. Bergstrom, "The costs and benefits of library site licenses to academic journals, PNAS Early Edition, January 8, 2004 (abstract freely available). A study published in PNAS last week examines insitutional site license subscriptions to online journals and whether users benefit from such arrangements.

I examined different aspects of Open Access and traditional, toll access publishing using Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) as a test case. The full essay, with links to my sources of data, was initially published on scitech library question. A PDF version will be available in the CaltechLIB repository on 26 August.