Art History: The True Cost of Research and Publishing (Kathryn M. Rudy, THE)

The true costs of research and publishing: Kathryn M. Rudy considers the huge expenses of doing scholarly work in her field of art history, THE (Times Higher Education)

Some of the costs:

"Buying high-resolution images for publication. Publishers demand 300 dpi digital images for publication. The directorate at the Royal Library in The Hague believes that the public already owns the collection items and should not have to pay for them twice. Yet other institutions charge enormous fees for high-res images, such as Stockholm’s Royal Library, where a single image costs SKr1,500 (£143.80). 

Paying copyright fees. Many institutions, especially those in the UK, demand a fee for allowing eingscholars to publish their images in books and articles, even those for scholarly audiences".

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These are some of the reasons why I eventually abandoned further work (at least for the time being) on a planned publication of a well- illustrated book (with about 100 illustrations and colour plates) on Art and the Dorset Landscape.