From: "Dollar, Daniel" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:10:15 +0000

I interpret the Harvard press release's reference to "large journal
publishers" to mean the three largest STM publishers. It would not
surprise me if Harvard paid 3.75 million for journals from just those
three publishers.

I am not writing this to open yet another round of publisher bashing.
Rick Anderson's Scholarly Kitchen post from May on the challenges
surrounding how library's pay for journal content is spot on,
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/05/30/the-big-deal-the-medium-deal-and-the-tiny-deal/

--Daniel

Daniel M. Dollar, MLS
Director of Collection Development
Yale University Library


Subject: Re: "Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?"

From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:33:00 -0700

Nothing new in this article for members of this list, but rather
surprising for its length.

Can anyone untangle the numbers?  Harvard's journals budget looks
incredibly low.  Also, 50% of all journals are published by a small
number of commercial publishers?  50% of the dollars, perhaps, but 50%
of the titles?

Joe Esposito