Established publishers are all struggling to migrate their business models from exclusively print revenues, to an appropriate balance of print and online and, in due course, to predominantly online. The links here indicate some recent approaches to achieving this transition.

 Tiered pricing is becoming increasingly popular as a way for publishers to balance broad institutional access with revenue that appropriately reflects this increased usage. For examples see the following:

 “Pricing Models” - Mary's talk in Washington DC on February 11, 2004.

 Two business guides developed by SPARC and commissioned by the Open Society Institute on business planning for open access journals are available at: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/oajguides/index.shtml

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 The Information Economy - For a site devoted to “The Economics of the Internet, Information goods, intellectual property and related issues” by Hal Varian.

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