[Open-access] World budget for scholarly publishing (journals)

[Mike Taylor]

On 15 October 2012 11:14, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at inria.fr>wrote:
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>> OK. "Un milliard" in my language…
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> Yes - I used this when I was a child - Free Online Dictionary:
> mil·liard  (mlyrd, -yärd, ml-ärd)
> *n.* *Chiefly British*
> The cardinal number equal to 109.
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> [French, from Old French milliart, from milion, *million*; see * million*
> .]
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>  But the issue is still that we are paying much too much as there is no
> regulation and no market control
>

And no competition!

-- Mike.




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>> Le 15 oct. 2012 à 11:58, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> a écrit :
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>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at inria.fr
>> > wrote:
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>>> Just to make sure (:-}) in your language, billion is 10power6, is that
>>> right?
>>>
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>> No,
>> That is 1 million.
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>> 1 billion in modern English is 10power9
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>> [many years ago in England 1 billion was 10power12; that is now 1
>> trillion; we used to say "an Americal billion" for 10power9]
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>>> Le 15 oct. 2012 à 11:32, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> a écrit :
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>>> > On 15 October 2012 10:07, Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at inria.fr>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> Dear all,
>>> >> I remember PMR mentioning some figures concerning the annual budget
>>> academic institution dedicate to scholarly publishing (mainly journal
>>> subscriptions). Can someone remind me of a figure and possibly a source.
>>> >
>>> > See "The STM Report: an overview of scientific and scholarly journal
>>> > publishing" at
>>> > http://www.stm-assoc.org/2009_10_13_MWC_STM_Report.pdf
>>> >
>>> > page says that "The annual revenues generated from English-language
>>> > STM journal publishing are estimated at about $8 billion in 2008, up
>>> > by 6-7% compared to 2007, within a broader STM publishing market worth
>>> > some $16 billion."
>>> >
>>> > For some disturbing maths based on this figure, see
>>> >
>>> http://svpow.com/2012/07/18/what-does-it-cost-to-publish-a-paywalled-paper-with-anyone/
>>> >
>>> > -- Mike.
>>>
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>> --
>> Peter Murray-Rust
>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> University of Cambridge
>> CB2 1EW, UK
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> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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