From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:26:45 +0100 Chuck has so much knowledge that I now turn to him. I have been told and read that Maxwell did make the change or lead the change to the annual schedule but what I do not know is whether or not US or UK as distinct from Germany followed the flow system earlier or was Maxwell just leading the change for "continental publishers". Anthony -----Original Message----- From: "Hamaker, Charles" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 23:53:19 +0000 http://www.hommages.ch/Announcements/pdf/32CC6E8CEEA40C65910A92A837A0DDCD.pdf As a friend said to me in his email to point this out, Another era passing. He was 82. Probably best known to the Internet era as the man who sued Harry Barschall and the AIP. Martin Gordon founded G&B in 1961 and implemented some innovations in the STM field, including if memory serves, speed shipping for STM journals. He may have been the last of the larger STM publishers(300 journals at one point) not to publish journals on a regular schedule, or even with a predictable annual subscription rate. Issues were released in a "flow" system, when there was enough "content" to fill an issue and for however many issues there was content for that year, more or less. That was in a German tradition common during the between the war years, when libraries never knew how many issues were coming from a journal, or how much the yearly cost would be. And or course when the German's did it their physics and chemistry journals were some of the most watched and waited for journals in the world. Most STM journals moved to regularly scheduled issues with predictable pricing by the time I became a librarian. in the early 1970's I suspect Robert Maxwell might have had something to do with that. Chuck