From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:38:41 -0500 It's expected that new journals will take a while to establish themselves and get to the point of producing a surplus. In older times this was expected to be, for most new journals, about three to five years. I don't know what the expectations are today. I would be surprised if any university press with a journals program were operating it overall at a loss. Usually, such programs are counted on to produce surpluses to generate a subsidy for the losing monograph side of the business. Many years ago, the AAUP Journals Committee conducted an annual survey to gather this kind of information, but I don't believe that survey has ever been resurrected and the old data would not be of much value now, except for historians. Sandy Thatcher > From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 15:50:28 +0000 > > Dear Collective Wisdom, > > I recently heard a presentation by a learned-society officer who > mentioned, in passing, that many society and non-profit scholarly > publishers are operating some or all of their journals at a loss. This > took me a bit by surprise; I've never doubted that there are scholarly > journals out there not earning their keep financially (and being kept > afloat for purposes of mission rather than revenue), but I got the > impression that there may be more of these out there than I thought. > > Has anyone studied this? Is there data out there on the > number/percentage of scholarly journals that are subsidized by their > host organizations rather than generating a surplus for them? > > Thanks in advance for any leads on this. > > --- > Rick Anderson > Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections > Marriott Library, University of Utah > [log in to unmask]