Minerva's Owl. A Reponse to John Houghton and Charles Oppenheim's 'The Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models'

Houghton and Oppenheim?s cost?benefit analysis of different forms of scholarly
publishing is a major contribution in considering the case for open access and for
open institutional repositories as a standard resource in publicly-funded universities.In what follows, I will draw out some specific aspects of Houghton and Oppenheim?s
cost?benefit analysis in order to explore these wider issues.