From: "Frantsvåg Jan Erik" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:48:57 +0000

Adding up some numbers from a 2010 article of mine
(http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3208/2726)
indicates that in the TA publishing industry, the 200 largest
publishers (i.e. those publishing more than 10 journals) publish 51,1
per cent of TA journals. If you raise the barrier, the 115 largest
publishers (i.e. those publishing more than 20 journals) publish 45,7
per cent of TA journals. The size distribution of OA journal
publishing is similarly skewed, if not to the same extreme.

Of course, whether 200 or 115 out of 8,566 publishers is a "small
number" could be a matter for discussion. It is a small fraction of
the number of publishers, without doubt.

Best,
Jan Erik


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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

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:04 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: "B.G. Sloan" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:16:53 -0700
>
> Some of you may be interested in this article from U.S. News & World Report:
>
> Owens, Simon. Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?
>
> "As Harvard balks at subscription cost and others take a page from its
> book, open access publishers get a fresh look."
>
> Full text at: http://bit.ly/Ofn7kH
>
> Bernie Sloan