From: Peter Suber <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 10:25:53 -0500 * Announcement (cross-posted) * I just mailed the December issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. This issue takes a close look at OA journals published by scholarly societies. Excerpt: "How many scholarly societies publish OA journals, and how many OA journals do they publish? Four years ago (November 2007), Caroline Sutton and I released the first edition of our inventory answering those questions, and today we release the second edition. Cutting to the chase: Our 2007 list turned up 425 societies publishing 450 full or non-hybrid OA journals. Our 2011 list shows 530 societies publishing 616 full OA journals." The look-back sections reprint short excerpts from SOAN five and ten years ago this quarter. December 2011 issue http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/12-02-11.htm How to subscribe and unsubscribe to the newsletter and discussion forum. http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/soan The current and back issues are all open access, of course. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm Peter Peter Suber Senior Researcher, SPARC Berkman Fellow, Harvard University Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge gplus.to/petersuber