From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:02:17 +0100

According to my calculations in 2007, the top 5 (now 4) publishers
(Elsevier, Springer, T&F, Blackwell & Wiley) published nearly 25% of the
journals in Ulrichs (about half of these on behalf of nonprofit
organisations).

In 1993 David Brown used figures supplied by BH Blackwell which indicated
that 117 'large' publishers (out of a total of 17531) published 17086 (20%)
of a total of 34833 journals.

Sally Morris
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West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU
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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