Le Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) d'Australie a publié un rapport / John Houghton, Colin Steele & Peter Sheehan.
Research Communication Costs In Australia: Emerging Opportunities And Benefits en calculant les ratio coûts / bénéfices sur une période de 20 ans à raison de 10 million de dollars australiens soit 5.800.000 euros pour d'un sytème de dépôt institutionnel :
"Expressing these impacts as a benefit/cost ratio we find that, over 20 years, a full system of institutional repositories in Australia costing AUD 10 million a year and achieving a 100% self-archiving compliance would show:
* A benefit/cost ratio of 51 for the modelled impacts of open access to public sector research (i.e. the benefits are 51 times greater than the costs);
* A benefit/cost ratio of 30 for the modelled impacts of open access to higher education research; and
* A benefit/cost ratio of 4.1 for the modelled impacts of open access to ARC competitive grants funded research...."
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