The cost of reading research. A study of Computer Science publication venues
Joseph Paul Cohen, Carla Aravena, Wei Ding

TL;DR
This paper analyzes the costs associated with computer science academic publishing for authors and readers, providing data and insights to inform future research on the economic aspects of scholarly communication.
Contribution
It offers a focused analysis of author and reader costs in computer science publishing, serving as a foundation for broader future studies across disciplines.
Findings
Quantitative data on author costs
Quantitative data on reader costs
Insights into the current state of publishing economics
Abstract
What does the cost of academic publishing look like to the common researcher today? Our goal is to convey the current state of academic publishing, specifically in regards to the field of computer science and provide analysis and data to be used as a basis for future studies. We will focus on author and reader costs as they are the primary points of interaction within the publishing world. In this work, we restrict our focus to only computer science in order to make the data collection more feasible (the authors are computer scientists) and hope future work can analyze and collect data across all academic fields.
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Taxonomy
TopicsOpen Education and E-Learning
