Costs and benefits - Findings from the reports on the Economic Benefits of Open Access in Denmark, The Netherlands and UK Speaker: Professor John Houghton (Victoria University, Australia)

1. Open Access: what are the benefits? A comparison of the UK, Netherlands & Denmark John Houghton Centre for Strategic Economic Studies Victoria University, Australia [email_address] edu .au

3. Phase I: Scholarly communication process http://www. cfses .com/ EI - ASPM / SCLCM -V7/ Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

6. National scholarly publishing (Approximate annual costs in Euro, 2007) Centre for Strategic Economic Studies EI-ASPM Model: Author’s analysis Note: Approximate activity cost estimates as annual costs at 2007 prices and levels of activity.

7. Scholarly publishing models (Approximate annual costs in Euro, 2007) Centre for Strategic Economic Studies EI-ASPM Model: Author’s analysis Note: Approximate activity cost estimates as annual costs at 2007 prices and levels of activity.

8. Publisher costs by mode and model (Euro per article) Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

9. Estimated system costs per article (Euro per article) Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

10. OA publishing costs and savings (“Author-pays” in Euro millions, 2007) Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

11. OA self-archiving costs and savings (“Green OA” in Euro millions, 2007) Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

12. OA self-archiving costs and savings (“Overlay Journals” in Euro millions, 2007) Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

16. Conceptual map of cost-benefit scenarios Centre for Strategic Economic Studies

17. Cost-Benefit comparisons (Benefit / Cost ratio) Centre for Strategic Economic Studies Note: Compares OA alternatives against subscription, with costs, savings and benefits expressed in Net Present Value over the first 20 years. Increased returns relate to higher education and public sector R&D spending. HE = Higher Education.