[GOAL] Re: Is there a serials crisis yet? When it comes to Theological and Religious Studies journals, I'd have to say yes

-Original Message- 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

[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.

[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 p

[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