Upon reading about the obscene costs of journals, e.g. in this post, I decided to write to my local university library and ask. They responded with this:<\/p>\n
Hej Emil<\/p>\n
Du har sendt os et sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5l:<\/p>\n
Jeg er interesseret i at finde ud af hvor mange penge AU bruger hvert \u00e5r p\u00e5 at k\u00f8be adgang til akademiske journaler. Jeg har kikket nogle budgetter igennem men fandt ikke noget. <\/em><\/p>\n
Ved I hvor man kan finde den information?<\/em><\/p>\n
Og sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5let er sendt videre til mig, da det nok ikke er noget, der offentligg\u00f8res som et tal for sig selv. Jeg kan fort\u00e6lle dig, at AU og SB i f\u00e6llesskabet AU Library bruger ca. 45 mio. kroner pr. \u00e5r p\u00e5 elektroniske ressourcer, hvoraf e-tidsskrifter udg\u00f8r langt st\u00f8rstedelen \u2013 dertil kommer databaser, leksika og mere almindelige e-b\u00f8ger.<\/p>\n
Med venlig hilsen<\/p>\n
Lilian<\/p>\n
Lilian Madsen<\/p>\n
Omr\u00e5dedirekt\u00f8r, Procesomr\u00e5det<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The relevant part translate to:<\/p>\n
And the question has been sent to me because it is probably not something that is published as a number for itself. I can tell you that [the university and university library together] spends about 45 million kroner per year on electronic resources of which the large majority is is e-journals — to that comes databases, lexicons, and normal e-books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If we assume that the large majority means 90%, then the number is 40.5 million DKK a year. A DKK is about .15 USD, so this is about 6.075 million USD. Put this together with the number of students, currently 43,600, and one can calculate a cost per year per student. This value is 930 DKK or about 139.3 USD per year per student. If you think about it, this is a crazy price to pay. The marginal cost post extra student is near-zero.<\/p>\n
Aarhus<\/a> is currently the largest university in Denmark, but it is about the same size as Copenhagen<\/a> which has 40,866 students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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