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From: Reckling, Falk [mailto:falk.reckl...@fwf.ac.at] 
Sent: 27 June 2014 07:40
To: Richard Poynder
Subject: AW: [GOAL] Re: Is there a serials crisis yet? When it comes to
Theological and Religious Studies journals, I'd have to say yes

sorry, that's the correct url: http://www.journalprices.com/ 

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From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Reckling, Falk
Sent: 27 June 2014 07:19
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] Re: Is there a serials crisis yet? When it comes to
Theological and Religious Studies journals, I'd have to say yes

True Jeroen, 

The very interesting database www.journalpricing.com shows the following
picture: 

1. The share of journals run by non-profit publishers in HSS is similar to
most of STM disciplines, and the share of journals run by for-profit
publishers seems to be increasing in all disciplines. 
2. The prices differences between commercial and non-commercial publishers
are huge in all disciplines. 
3. Although the average price per journal is much higher in STM, the
difference disappears if one takes the price per article as a measure, even
if one can assumes that an article in the HSS are usually longer than in
STM. For example, the median journal price in the field of History was
around $400 last year and in Chemistry, that is the most expansive
discipline of all, it was $1.800. But the median price per article in a
History journals was $21 and in Chemical journals $13. The reason is quite
simple. Chemical journals publish on the average 10 times more articles per
journal than History journals.

Best,
Falk

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Tel: +43-1-5056740-8861
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Von: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] Im Auftrag
von Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)
Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Juni 2014 08:04
An: 'Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)'
Betreff: [GOAL] Re: Is there a serials crisis yet? When it comes to
Theological and Religious Studies journals, I'd have to say yes

Gary,

Not wanting to defend high price increases I do think that you should take
into account the number of papers published in the average journal in the
various fields and how this number develops over time. The typical
humanities journal may have 4-6 issues with 4-8 papers, so 16-48 papers per
annum whereas the typical chemistry journal may have 8-12 issues with 24-48
papers resulting in 192-572 papers per annum. This partly explaines the big
interfield journal cost variety. 

I suspect that the pressure to publish and sheer growth of the number of
researchers has caused these numbers to rise over the past few years, also
in humanities. That also partly explaines the rising journal costs. So take
a per article view. Or academics should decide to write less and read and
think more ;-)

Jeroen Bosman
Utrecht University Library

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From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Omega Alpha | Open Access
Sent: woensdag 25 juni 2014 17:58
To: goal@eprints.org; sparc-oafo...@arl.org
Subject: [GOAL] Is there a serials crisis yet? When it comes to Theological
and Religious Studies journals, I'd have to say yes

Is there a serials crisis yet? When it comes to Theological and Religious
Studies journals, I'd have to say yes
http://wp.me/p20y83-X4

The other day, over on Library Journal's website, Dorothea Salo published a
short piece entitled "Is There a Serials Crisis Yet? Between Chicken Little
and the Grasshopper," which, as it happens, I read the evening after
participating on a panel presentation at the American Theological Library
Association's annual conference in New Orleans. The panel was entitled "Open
Access: Responding to a Looming 'Serials Crisis' in Theological and
Religious Studies." My role on the panel was to place the case for open
access within a context that suggested unsustainable journal pricing was no
longer limited to disciplines in the Sciences. Although Humanities journals,
including those in Theological and Religious Studies, are still typically
priced at a fraction of Science journals, I provided evidence that rapid
increases in prices over a relatively short period of time pointed to a
looming serials crisis in our disciplines. .
 
As I mentioned, when we think of the "serials crisis" we have tended to
associate it with journals in the Sciences. Humanities journals, including
titles in Theology and Religion are priced at a fraction of Science
journals. I threw this table up on the screen from figures I pulled from the
2014 Library Journal Periodical Price Survey. Since Philosophy & Religion
journals are so "cheap" we might be tempted to ask, "So what's the problem?"

To illustrate the problem as I see it, I shared some in-progress research I
am doing on title and price changes for Theological and Religious Studies
journals published by the Big 5 commercial academic publishers.
 
Your comments are welcome.

Gary F. Daught
Omega Alpha | Open Access
Advocate for open access academic publishing in religion and theology
http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com oa.openaccess at gmail dot com |
@OAopenaccess

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