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. 2014 Jun 16;111(26):9425–9430. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1403006111

Table 2.

Bundle cost per citation: Nonprofits

Pricing method and publisher Type of institution
Research 1, $ Research 2, $ Master’s, $
Negotiated pricing
 American Chemical Society 0.50 0.34 0.18
 Oxford University Press 1.27 0.58 0.20
 Cambridge University Press 4.06 2.14 1.04
Tiered pricing
 National Academy of Sciences 0.10 0.08 0.04
 American Society for Biochemistry  and Molecular Biology 0.18 0.16 0.15
 American Society for Microbiology 0.28 0.22 0.13
 American Physical Society 0.34 0.22 0.17
 Endocrine Society 0.41 0.41 0.35
 American Medical Association 0.61 0.48 0.48
 Ecological Society of America 0.50 0.49 0.49
 Rockefeller University Press 0.83 0.68 0.55
 American Geophysical Union 1.09 0.73 0.48
 American Institute of Physics 0.82 0.73 0.65
 American Psychiatric Association 0.93 0.82 0.82
 MIT Press 1.16 1.04 0.93
 Cold Spring Harbor Press 1.46 1.29 1.29
 Company of Biologists 1.52 1.38 1.18
 U of Chicago Press 2.36 1.64 1.64
 American Psychological Association 2.87 2.11 1.60
Uniform pricing
 Average for 37 journals 1.77 1.77 1.77