From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:32:46 +0100
Thanks, Jan Erik - that's very interesting.
My own analysis (http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/095315107X239654) in 2007 looked
in detail at the 657 publishers listed as members of 5 leading trade
association. This showed that 44% of 362 nonprofit publishers of journals
listed as members of trade associations had just one journal, and 67% three
or fewer; among the 98 commercial publishers of journals just 18% had only
one journal, and 34% three or fewer. The top 11 publishers published 70% of
the journals.
It is worth comparing with what Raym Crow found in 2005. He found that over
97% of society publishers publish 3 or fewer journals, and almost 90%
publish just one. See http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/Cooperatives_v1.pdf.
He didn't look separately at OA journals.
When Raym looked at 19,500 scholarly journals in Ulrich's in 2005, he found
that some 38% of these were self-published society journals, commercially
published society journals were 17% and commercial journals 45%; thus
around 27.5% of all commercially published journals were society-sponsored,
and around 30% of all nonprofit-sponsored titles were published by
commercial publishers (more than half of them by the top 6 publishers).
Sally
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From: "Frantsvag Jan Erik" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:36:32 +0000
Sally, just a comment on your numbers.
In an article I wrote nearly 2 years ago, I looked at the size distribution
of OA publishers, but also had a look at TA publishers for comparison.
I found that while the average number of journals per publisher was larger
for TA than for OA publishers (2.64 vs. 1.60), both TA and OA was totally
dominated by single-journal publishers - more than 80 per cent of
publishers, both TA and OA published only one journal.
Your average of 2.42 suggest to me that more than 80 per cent of your
publishers also publish a single journal only.
See
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3208/
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Best, Jan Erik
Jan Erik Frantsvag
Open Access adviser
The University Library of Tromsų
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From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:53:34 +0100
I'm not sure Anthony is right about 'most' learned societies publishing in
association with a larger (often commercial) publisher
When I checked the Ulrich's statistics in 2007, 8027 publishers were listed
with (socie*, socia*, institu* or istitu*) in the publisher field (another
3531 had (universi*)). 4994 of these combined groups were publishing active,
refereed scholarly journals. The average number of journals per publisher in
these two groups was just 2.42, which suggests to me (given that it includes
large UPs such as Oxford, Cambridge, Chicago etc) that many of them were
probably publishing only one title.
Sally
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