C. Tenopir et Dw. King, TRENDS IN SCIENTIFIC SCHOLARLY JOURNAL PUBLISHING IN THE UNITED-STATES, Journal of scholarly publishing, 28(3), 1997, pp. 135-170
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25
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Art & Humanities General
Scientific scholarly publishing has experienced dramatic economic chan
ge over the past few decades. Unfortunately, there has been little doc
umentation concerning details of such change, other than reported pric
e increases. In mid-1995 the University of Tennessee School of Informa
tion Sciences/Center for Information Studies was awarded the Special L
ibraries Association Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Grant. The
purpose of this grant is to produce relevant data and: information to
examine the scholarly journal publishing system in order to better und
erstand what has happened and to help authors, publishers, librarians,
readers, and library funders avoid mistakes of the past when dealing
with emerging electronic journals and article distribution. This paper
describes current scientific journal publishing in the United States,
trends over I:he past twenty years, and data that help explain the pr
ice and demand relationship involving individual and institutional sub
scriptions.