Mary H. Munroe, The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. This resource, jointly supported by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Information Access Alliance, aims to sort out who owns whom in the publishing industry by presenting a series of timelines covering twelve major scholarly publishers. "A major finding of this research has been how many of the major imprints bought by academic librarians all over the world are owned by the same company, and how much, even in our own professional literature, we are purchasing from the same 12 companies. The story is sobering," writes Munroe. (Source: the (sci-tech) Library Question)
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Garrett at 3/11/2004 12:23:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
