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



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From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:30:47 -0500

And the amount of academic publishing done by university presses is
dwarfed by that done by for-profit, private companies. Yes, knowledge
of history can be helpful . . . . :)

Sandy Thatcher


At 6:11 PM -0400 4/30/13, LIBLICENSE wrote:

> From: "Guédon Jean-Claude" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:03:17 -0400
>
> Public subsidies are already the case, to a greater or lesser extent,
> in many countries or groups of countries. For example: Canada, France,
> Italy, the countries of Latin America, Europe + South Africa
> supporting SciELO, etc...
>
> Perversely, these public subsidies sometimes go to supporting private
> companies (the French case is a very good example of this situation).
>
> The US will probably be the last country to adopt such a system, once
> Britain relents..., but the university presses of old used to be
> subsidized by public or non-profit universities. That was the idea
> behind the creation of Johns Hopkins University Press. Some knowledge
> of history can be helpful in this regard.
>
>
> Jean-Claude Guédon
> Professeur titulaire
> Littérature comparée
> Université de Montréal
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:52:58 -0400
>
> I quote:
>
> "Support all scientific publishing by public subsidies"
>
> Good luck.
>
> Joe Esposito