[open-science] [Open-access] Data expedition idea - scholarly publishing income

Fri Dec 20 15:31:50 UTC 2013

Thanks for looping me in to this conversation Heather!

I'd love to have a hangout in the New Year. I can't do anything w/c 13 Jan,
but have pretty good availability otherwise.

Michelle

On 20 December 2013 15:09, Heather Morrison <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>wrote:

>  thanks Juan ~
>
>  The Elsevier annual reports can be found here:
> http://www.elsevier.com/about/annual-reports
>
>  Springer is here:
>
> http://www.springer.com/about+springer/company+information/annual+report?SGWID=0-175705-0-0-0
>
>  A hangout next year sounds good!
>
>  best,
>
>   --
> Dr. Heather Morrison
> Assistant Professor
> École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
> University of Ottawa
> 613-562-5800 ext. 7634
> http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
> Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca
>
>
>  On 2013-12-20, at 8:40 AM, Juan Jimenez-Anca <juan at encremento.com>
>  wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Following Jenny's emails, I thought it would be a good idea to start a new
> email conversation for the seven people who signed for this, but couldn't
> find the email addresses on the pad. I had planned to do this earlier, but
> university work has been really busy before the Christmas break. My
> apologies for this.
>
> During this time, I have been able to find company overviews for Informa
> PLC
> (with information about the Academic division) and John Wiley & Sons. I
> have
> attached the two overviews for your information. I think these files are
> useful to update the information made available for 2011 in the various
> journalistic sources distributed earlier by email.
>
> As an update to those figures, the Academic Information (AI) division of
> Informa PLC had revenues of £340.3 million ($539.3 million) in 2012. This
> represented an increase of 5.2% over 2011. The picture for the whole group
> is mixed, as even though there was a decrease of the operating profit, the
> net profit went up by more than 20% to £90.7 million ($143.7 million). The
> operating profit for the AI division was 36% of the whole group's.
>
> According to my own calculations the academic information division had an
> operating profit of £44.78 million in the FY2012.
>
> In the case of John Wiley & Sons, according to the company overview
> attached, "the operating profit of the company was $280.4 million during
> FY2012, an increase of 13% over FY2011. The net profit was $212.7 million
> in
> FY2012, an increase of 23.8% over FY2011." Their scientific, technical,
> medical and scholarly division represents 58.4% of their revenue, whilst
> higher education is 17.3%.
>
> I have not been able to find similar overviews for Elsevier and Springer's.
> But I just wanted to check with the group how to proceed from here before
> trying to dig a bit further.
>
> With Christmas round the corner, a sensible option may perhaps be a group
> videoconference in the new year. I have found out that Google Hangouts work
> really well for this purpose. It could just be an informal conversation to
> introduce ourselves and, if possible, come up with a plan of action for the
> following weeks. Would this be something the group would be interesting in
> doing?
>
>
> Best wishes
> Juan
>
> ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
> Dr. Juan J. Jiménez-Anca
> Lecturer in International Business (Aston University) | Founder and
> Director
> Encremento c.i.c. | juan at encremento.com | j.j.jimenez-anca at aston.ac.uk
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-access [mailto:open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of
> Bjoern Brembs
> Sent: 05 December 2013 23:28
> To: Jenny Molloy
> Cc: Heather Morrison; Encremento; open-access at lists.okfn.org; Carl
> Boettiger; open-science
> Subject: Re: [Open-access] [open-science] Data expedition idea - scholarly
> publishing income
>
> On Thursday, December 5, 2013, 1:38:58 PM, you wrote:
>
> Bjoern - I think at this stage a data expedition would be more
> finding out what data we can get and then we can bring the economists
> on board so if you would still be happy to help coordinate that would
> be fantastic!
>
>
> Ok, I'm not sure I'll be able to help much. I could list what kinds of data
> would be helpful.
>
> For instance, stuff like this from Heather:
> http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.de/2013/12/scholarly-journal-article-publi
> shing.html
>
> Bjoern
>
>
>
>
> --
> Björn Brembs
> ---------------------------------------------
> http://brembs.net
> Neurogenetics
> Universität Regensburg
> Germany
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