| Journal | Article Price (USD) |
| American Journal of Archaeology (JSTOR) | 10.00 |
| American Journal of Archaeology (Atypon) | 10.00 (*) |
| American Journal of Philology | 10.00 |
| Archaeometry (Blackwell) | 29.00 |
| Britannia | 12.00 |
| Classical Journal | NA |
| Classical Philology | 14.00 |
| Classical Quarterly | 19.00 |
| Classical Review | 19.00 |
| Greece & Rome | 19.00 |
| Harvard Studies in Classical Philology | NA |
| Hesperia (JSTOR) | 12.00 |
| Hesperia (Atypon) | 10.00 |
| Internaional Journal of Nautical Archaeology (Blackwell) | 29.00 |
| Journal of Hellenic Studies | 12.00 |
| Journal of Roman Studies | 12.00 |
| Phoenix | 10.00 |
| Transactions of the American Philological Association | NA |
| Dumbarton Oaks Papers | NA |
| Oxford Journal of Archaeology (Blackwell) | 29.00 |
| Harvard Theological Review (Cambridge) | 15.00 |
| Cambridge Archaeological Journal (Cambridge) | 15.00 |
Many people will know that I am not inclined to charge for the distribution of information, but I don't want to beat that (very much alive) horse right now. I do wonder if anybody from a journal, Atypon or JSTOR would be willing to dramatically drop these prices, at least on an experimental basis. How about 50 cents per article? It seems to me that the price/demand curve might work in everybody's favor. Many more copies would be sold, people like me couldn't complain nearly so much. I'm guessing that the answer is bound up in the perceived necessity to maintain a printed version but a small test of micro-payment supported digital distribution might be interesting.
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FWIW, i rail about this same thing constantly, but I would happily pay a dollar for an article as a pdf (i.e. about the same you'd pay for something at itunes). even better, if they accepted paypal i'd be a very happy independent scholar. even mo' better, if they had an affiliate program which gave me points for recommending articles that others might download, i'd be ecstatic.
I seem to vary between having JSTOR access and being cut off ... so would happily join too - think this has been discussed many places before.
But, I wanted to point out one of the good things Bush has done ... he made a move where scientific studies partly funded by the government (ie us US tax payers) had to be freely available. It's just starting to be implemented, and seems to mostly apply to medical journals (who are in fits over this as journals are big business), but should also in theory apply to all research, including for example, archaeologists who get an NEH grant and publish in the AJA ...
Many libraries use document delivery services to avoid supporting journals through subscriptions. Making individual articles available at micropayment levels would tempt even more librarians to use this method of accessing the literature, and further undermine subscription revenue. Why shouldn't an organization like the American School of Classical Studies, that funds a lot of the research it publishes, be entitled to charge something for re-use? And isn't a targeted source of information, like an article, worth $10-$12?
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