journal cost issues

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• - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition site provides information on alternative scholarly communication strategies, including affordable or open access journals and institutional repositories.
  
• - Compares the costs of library investments to other items. By the Florida Atlantic University Libraries.
  
• - Detailed analysis on the journal crisis in academic publishing. "For many years, increases in the prices of library materials in all formats (including more recently electronic) have generally exceeded-sometimes significantly-increases in library acq
  
• - Examples of the cost of resources for the UCSF Libraries, with real world comparisons.
  
• - Compares the cost of print and electronic library resources to a variety of goods and services from our everyday lives. From the University of Maryland's Health Sciences and Human Services Library.
  
• - A survey on the market of scholarly journals with a case study and analyses from the field of ecology.
  
• - Price tags on expensive periodicals at the Brown University science library. [The George Street Journal]
  
• - The University of Queensland Library's look at the rising cost of journals, compared to other goods.
  
• - Comparative illustrations of the rising costs of scientific journals. From Cornell University's Engineering and Computer Science Library.
  
• - Facts and figures about journal costs, with a quiz.