Scholarly e-journal pricing models and open access publishing, 2007

"Scholarly e-journal pricing models and open access publishing" by Margaret Wineburgh-Freed is pages 15-24 in: Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, vol. 4, no. 1/2 (2007).; This article provides an overview and description of the models being used to price electronic journals, reviews the development of electronic journals, and briefly discusses the history of journal pricing. The development and current situation of open-access scholarly publishing are also discussed. Open access may provide needed relief to the inexorable rise in journal prices, while increasing the impact of research distributed in this way.