Economic Models

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• Economic Models
• What needs to be paid for?
• Peer Review Management
• File Management
• Printing
• Hard copy distribution
• Converting print to digital format (text
  images)
• Online distribution
• Promotion
• Usage surveys/statistics

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Economic models

• Reader pays through subscriptions/licenses (eg
  most established printed journals)
• Author pays through page charges/handling
  charges free to readers (eg BioMedCentral
  (BMC))
• Institute/Society/University pays, through
  increasing charges for other services,
  advertising, subscription savings free to
  readers (eg BMJ, online-only Bioline
  journals... )
• Differential charges to different readers (eg
  BMC, HINARI programme, PERI programme)
• Government or other grant (eg SciELO, Brazil)
  free to readers
• Free through institutional e-print archiving
  (arXive, increasing numbers of publications
  adopting this policy)