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DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA, a Community Driven Journal
Talk, given on September 24, 2003, at ChALS 2003 Chalmers Annual Library Seminars, Göteborg

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Costs and Savings

Official Report of the Managing Editors
to the DMV presidency from 1999:
Actual costs per year
as of 1999
Depreciation, power, storage for PC, share of 2 % 21 €
Networking costs 120 €
Costs of edition, see remark above marginal
Technical maintenance costs marginal
Total ca. 200 €

DOCUMENTA produces 700 pages a year, each for : 0.10 €
Average price (over 276 journals) for one page : 0.56 €
Savings for: €/year:
55 university libraries (Germany): 55 x 700 x 0.46: 17710
400 university libraries (World): 400 x 700 x 0.46: 128800


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