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The State of Scholarly Journal Publishing: 1981-2000
- Journal of Scholarly Publishing
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 37, Number 3, April 2006
- pp. 155-214
- 10.1353/scp.2006.0010
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Scholarly journals play a substantive role in the dissemination of knowledge among academics, and university presses have been exceptionally active as journal publishers. But since 1981 a series of events has affected, and in some instance adversely affected, journal publishing.
This article analyses data from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) regarding 1317 scholarly journals in 25 marker fields and addresses the following question: It has been alleged that it became difficult for academics in certain fields to get published in scholarly journals. Was there any decrease in the number of articles published in the 1317 journals analysed in this study?
Other questions addressed in this paper include the following: What impact did the serials crisis have on university presses? Did the economics of journal publishing change between 1981 and 2000? What is the potential impact of the 'open access' movement on scholarly communication?
