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 House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, ‘Open Access: Fifth Report of Session 2013–14’, p. 18.

Taylor & Francis, ‘Information for Funders & Institutions’, 2014 www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/funders [accessed 11 May 2014].

I am aware of institutions with budgets of £4,000 per year, which leads to approximately three articles on the levels outlined above.

Stevan Harnad, ‘Pre Green-OA Fool’s Gold vs. Post Green-OA Fair Gold’, Open Access Archivangelism, 2013 http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1007-Pre-Green-OA-Fools-Gold-vs.-Post-GreenOA-Fair-Gold.html [accessed 17 May 2014].

Consider as an illustrative example of this the evidence of Nature to the House of Commons select committee in 2004, justifying a £30,000 APC purely on the basis of their current practice: ‘The £30,000 ﬁgure was arrived at simply by dividing the annual income of Nature (£30 million) by the number of research papers published (1,000).’ House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, ‘Supplementary Evidence from Nature Publishing Group’.

Alice Meadows and David Sweeney, ‘Meet David Sweeney of HEFCE – the Higher Education Funding Council of the UK’, Wiley Exchanges, 2014 http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2014/05/06/meet-david-sweeneyof-hefce-the-higher-education-funding-council-of-the-uk/ [accessed 17 May 2014].

Once more, consider Nature group’s pricing: a print-only (and, therefore, single concurrent-user) institutional subscription to Nature in North America comes to $4,958.00. Nature, ‘Pricing’, 2014 www.nature.com/nmat/pricing/index.html#site_licence [accessed 17 May 2014]. It is also worth noting the extremely high costs paid by some institutions to Elsevier with huge variance even within the top tier of UK universities. Imperial College, for example, currently spends £1,340,213 annually. Tim Gowers, ‘Elsevier Journals – Some Facts’, Gowers’s Weblog, 2014 http://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/ [accessed 17 May 2014].

For a parallel in the sphere of online music distribution, see Aleksandr Dolgin, The Economics of Symbolic Exchange (Berlin: Springer, 2009), pp. 32–40.

Thompson, Books in the Digital Age, p. 24.

Note well that there are no current mandates that insist exclusively on gold open access. The Wellcome Trust’s mandate, however, was fulﬁlled through the gold route in 85% of the compliant cases in 2012 according to Nature. Richard Poynder, ‘Open Access Mandates: Ensuring Compliance’, Open and Shut?, 2012 http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/open-access-mandates-ensuring.html [accessed 17 May 2014].