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ABSTRACT:
The cost per page for SIO Library's journals costing over $500 for 1996 ranges from $0.03/page to $3.93/page. Society and university publishers tend to have a lower cost per page than commercial publishers but there are exceptions. Why do scientific journals range in cost so widely? Several factors affect institutional (library) subscription rates including total number of subscribers, additional revenue received from author page charges and personal subscriptions, payment to authors, quality and size of the paper, density of the material on the page (type size, spacing etc), the number and quality of illustrations, strength of dollar if title is published outside US, operational overhead, presence of translated articles, and profit margin. These titles are arranged in three tables: cost per page order; publisher order; and alphabetical order.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Peter Brueggeman, "Cost per Page for 1996 subscriptions costing over $500 at SIO Library" (February 1, 1997). Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library. Paper 2.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/lib/2