From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 19:56:46 +0000 Rick The report is rather old and so I wouldn’t want to vouch that the data reported necessarily represent the current picture, but back in 2004 ALPSP published the results of a survey that looked at the size of publishing surpluses for society journals. A third of respondents subsidised their publishing operations, while for those that did make money publishing represented 20-30% on total society income. The report is available at: http://www.alpsp.org/Ebusiness/ProductCatalog/nfpSurpluses.aspx?ID=48 David David C Prosser Executive Director, RLUK On 8 Mar 2015, at 19:09, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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]