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/3208/2726
Best, Jan Erik
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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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