initiatives aimed at dealing with journal-price inflation: (1) promoting low-cost modes of production and distribution, e.g., e … "scholarly communication" policy that is sensitive to pluralism with respect to journal-quality is recommended …

We analyze optimal pricing and quality of a monopolistic journal and the optimality of open access in a two-sided model … the relationship between readers and authors in a journal. In contrast to previous literature, we firstly show that there … thus forced open access) decreases journal profits but has ambiguous social welfare effects …

We analyse optimal pricing and quality of a monopolistic journal and the optimality of open access in a two-sided model … the (non-linear) externalities between readers and authors in a journal. We show that there exist scenarios in which open …) will likely increase both readership and authorship, will decrease journal profits, and may increase social welfare …

We analyze optimal pricing and quality of a monopolistic journal and the optimality of open access in a two-sided model … the (non-linear) externalities between readers and authors in a journal. We show that there exist scenarios in which open …) will likely increase both readership and authorship, will decrease journal profi ts, and may increase social welfare …