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 Jan Erik Frantsvag Open Access adviser The University Library of Tromsų e-mail [log in to unmask] http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/ http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/septentrio/ http://www2.uit.no/ansatte/jan.e.frantsvag Publications: http://tinyurl.com/6rycjns -----Opprinnelig melding----- 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 Sally Morris South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU Email: [log in to unmask]