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.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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