From: "Dollar, Daniel" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:10:15 +0000 I interpret the Harvard press release's reference to "large journal publishers" to mean the three largest STM publishers. It would not surprise me if Harvard paid 3.75 million for journals from just those three publishers. I am not writing this to open yet another round of publisher bashing. Rick Anderson's Scholarly Kitchen post from May on the challenges surrounding how library's pay for journal content is spot on, http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/05/30/the-big-deal-the-medium-deal-and-the-tiny-deal/ --Daniel Daniel M. Dollar, MLS Director of Collection Development Yale University Library Subject: Re: "Is the Academic Publishing Industry on the Verge of Disruption?" 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