Bundled journal access agreements between journal publishers and research institutions display variability in pricing that cannot be explained by institution characteristics alone, according to a study. Although some publishers and libraries hold the details of such agreements confidential, Theodore C. Bergstrom and colleagues used Freedom of Information Act requests to examine agreements between public universities and both commercial and non-profit journal publishers. The authors compared the cost of access to journal bundles, measured as the cost per citation of articles in the journals, for large research universities, small PhD degree-granting universities, and predominantly master’s degree-granting institutions.
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