From: "Guédon Jean-Claude" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 14:21:27 -0400

Thank you, Sandy, for these clarification, but why limit oneself to
just three countries? Science is done all over the world, so far as I
know.

And, in Canada, the programme of support for scholarly monographs
affects around 200 monographs per year. Transposed to the US, this
woud amount to close to 2,000 monographs.


Jean-Claude Guédon
Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal



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From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 18:37:27 -0500

Just to be clear, I wasn't talking about publication of journals and
books worldwide, but just in the US, Canada, and UK.  I'm quite well
aware that government funds a much higher percentage of higher
education in general in other countries. But the number of journals
and books put out by such behemoths as Taylor & Francis, Sage,
Palgrave Macmillan, etc., far exceeds the entire output of the
membership of the AAUP. (Subsidies still exist for most of the presses
that are members of the AAUP, on average covering about 10% of their
operating expenses Only some of these are "public" subsidies,
however.)

Sandy Thatcher


At 6:13 PM -0400 5/2/13, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> From: "Guédon Jean-Claude" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 03:05:02 -0400
>
> I question this figure, Sandy. For example, the 6,000 academic
> journals vetted by Latindex in Latin America are all supported by
> academic institutions.
>
> Also academic presses are not alone on the non-profit side of things:
> association publications also exist, and they do not all behave like
> the American Chemical Society.
>
> I was using the example of U. presses in the US to show that, even
> there, subsidies had existed until well after the 2nd WW.
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
> Professeur titulaire
> Littérature comparée
> Université de Montréal