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In the last section, we used the sample bibliography below to explore scholarly publisher paywalls. This time, try accessing these articles by searching for them on your university library's website.
Article List
Article List
Govea-Alonso DO, Beltrán-López J, Salazar-González JA, Vargas-Morales J, Rosales-Mendoza S. Progress and future opportunities in the development of vaccines against atherosclerosis. Expert review of vaccines. 2017;16:337. 10.1080/14760584.2017.1258309
Lauersen KJ, Huber I, Wichmann J, et al. Investigating the dynamics of recombinant protein secretion from a microalgal host. Journal of biotechnology. 2015;215:62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2015.05.001
Hallmann A. Advances in Genetic Engineering of Microalgae. In: Hallmann A., Rampelotto P. (eds) Grand Challenges in Algae Biotechnology. Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology. Springer, Cham. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25233-5_5
Rasala BA, and Mayfield SP. Photosynthetic biomanufacturing in green algae; production of recombinant proteins for industrial, nutritional, and medical uses. Photosynth Res. 2015;123:227–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-014-9994-7
Rosales-Mendoza S, Solis-Andrade KI, Marquez-Escobar VA, Gonzalez-Ortega O, Banuelos-Hernandez B. Current advances in the algae-made biopharmaceuticals field. Expert opinion on biological therapy. 2020;20:751-766. 10.1080/14712598.2020.1739643
Tran M, Henry RE, Siefker D, Van C, Newkirk G, Kim J, Bui J, and Mayfield SP. Production of anti‐cancer immunotoxins in algae: Ribosome inactivating proteins as fusion partners. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2013:110:2826-2835. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.24966
Chances are, the paywall may have disappeared for you on at least one of those articles when you accessed them through your university library website. If so, you may see a message like the one below where the "get access" button used to be.
What's happening here is that your university library is paying the subscription for the scholarly journal or database containing the article so faculty, staff, and students of your university can access it. This is how researchers can do research without having to pay hundreds of dollars for references, and how you can write a paper without having to pay the same!
Libraries often subscribe to multiple journals from one publisher in bundles known as "big deals." What you can access without a paywall through your library depends on what the library subscribes to.
Just how much do libraries spend on all these scholarly information subscriptions? Let's find out!
Copy of Paywalls _ Information Costs.pptxAnswers
Answers
Web of Science! It costs about $275,000 per year for libraries.
The bunker house, but Elsevier will still cost close to $2 million per year for a library subscription.
Both cost about the same, around $86,000.
Takeaways
Takeaways
1. University libraries subscribe to journals so university members don't have to individually pay for access to scholarly information.
2. Libraries pay for "big deal" bundled subscriptions to journals, which get costly quickly.
Attributions
Price comparison activity adapted from the Duke Library 101 Toolkit.
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