"The economics of ecology journals" by Ted C Bergstrom

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The economics of ecology journals

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2007)

Ted C Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Carl T Bergstrom, University of Washington

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Abstract

Large commercial publishers charge dramatically higher prices to institutions than do non-profit publishers. These price differences do not reflect quality as measured by citation rate or pages. We discuss effect of prices and citations on number of library subscriptions and offer an explanation for why competition has not been able to erode the price difference between commercial and non profit journals.

Keywords

ecology journals,
pricing,
citations

Disciplines

Demography, Population, and Ecology,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and
Economics

Publication Date

2007

Citation Information

Ted C Bergstrom and Carl T Bergstrom. "The economics of ecology journals" Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Vol. 4 Iss. 9 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ted_bergstrom/88/