Don King on the OA Benefit

[David Prosser <david.prosser@rluk.ac.uk>]

I may have missed it, but I don't think that the community's 
attention has been drawn to Don King's recent D-Lib Magazine 
article:

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/king/03king.html

Professor King concludes that a move to 'author-pay' OA would 
provide system-wide cost savings in the US and cost no more than 
about 1% of the total federal research budget.  It is interesting 
that the 1% figure ties in with the figures calculated a few 
years ago by the Wellcome Trust in the UK and the conclusions on 
cost savings reflect those of Houghton et al in the UK, 
Netherlands, and Denmark (and about which there has been no 
little controversy).

David