[open-science] [Open-access] Elsevier: some facts, by Tim Gowers

P Kishor punk.kish at gmail.com
Fri May 2 13:51:29 UTC 2014


Awesome! is this spreadsheet being kept up to date by you Stuart? I am
going to also assume I can share this widely. Let me know if I am wrong in
that assumption.

Would be really nice to get NPG's numbers (even if estimates) and in fact,
of entire Macmillan.

Other random, quick observations. Profit margins don't seem to be
correlated with evilness. One of the most reviled publishers (at least from
"n" of 1) has a very slim margin. Two very respected publishers have
reasonable to low margins, etc.

Many thanks again.



On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Stuart Lawson <stuart.a.lawson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nature Publishing Group don't publish their financial results. for those
> that do, see:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al2yRSSAaU2vdHBKQ3pMUXNUeXZGVnB2dG1Cakp4X0E&usp=drive_web#gid=2
>
>
> On 2 May 2014 14:40, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Scott, others,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:33 AM, S.C. Edmunds <
>> scott at gigasciencejournal.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If Tom is compiling the per country comparisons
>>
>>
>>
>> Per country comparisons are great, but is there a way to find out profit
>> margins and expenses for other publishers such as Science, Nature, well,
>> all others, as well? Is there a canonical resource for such data?
>>
>>
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