The document discusses the funding models for academic journals, with 38% of journals funded by publishers, 27% by universities, and 18% by professional bodies or associations. It also examines the open access policies of journals, finding that only 4.4% of articles were fully open access. Additionally, it reviews author processing charges (APCs) for open access journals, with an average APC of $2,594. The document cites a study that advocates for library publishing as a way to save scholarly journals from neoliberal influences by promoting greater cooperation.

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10. Articles searched: 3,448
Open Articles: 150 (4.4 % )
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12. Ghamandi, D. S. (2018). Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save Scholarly
Journals from Neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 6(Special Issue: The
Role of Scholarly Communication in a Democratic Society), eP2223. https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-
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