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Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship
Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship

Analysis & Modeling the Costs of Open Scholarship

CREOS researches patterns and emerging trends that influence institutional strategies to support financially sustainable publishing and open scholarship.

Potential research questions

  • How do different economic models for open access publishing impact various stakeholders (publishers, libraries, universities, funders)?
  • What are the short and long-term implications for various economic models for open scholarship?
  • What are the various economic implications of lack of openness and equity in scholarly publishing?

Projects

Analyzing costs of journal article publishing and reading (2025)

In the complex and rapidly evolving landscape of scholarly publishing, research institutions need reliable data and analysis to understand the costs of both publishing and accessing scholarly articles. Building on an internal pilot project in 2023, CREOS is collaborating with peer institutions to analyze the current and projected costs of reading and publishing, under different possible models and rates of open access publishing. The outcome will include the results and data shared as openly as possible, to allow for replication and reuse.