Economics of Scholarly Publishing: Exploring the Causes of Subscription Price Variations of Scholarly Journals in Business Subject–Specific Areas

• Published in: The Library quarterly (Chicago) Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 211 - 232
• Main Author: Liu, Lewis G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Chicago Press 01.04.2011
• Subjects: Academic journals; Academic Libraries; Business Education; Coefficients; Commercial publishing; Dependent Variables; Economics; Finance; Financial management; Foreign Countries; Hypothesis Testing; Librarians; Management accounting; Marketing; Periodicals; Predictor Variables; Prices; Regression (Statistics); Researchers; Scholarly publishing; Statistical Significance; Subscription prices; United Kingdom; United States; Variable coefficients; United States; United Kingdom

This empirical research investigates subscription price variations of scholarly journals in five business subject–specific areas using the semilogarithmic regression model. It has two main purposes. The first is to address the unsettled debate over whether or not and to what extent commercial publis...