Publishing Cooperatives Raym Crow Senior Consultant, SPARC Consulting Group THE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION 21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 296-2296 www.arl.org/sparc First International Public Knowledge Project Scholarly Publishing Conference Vancouver, BC
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Publishing Cooperatives
Raym CrowSenior Consultant, SPARC Consulting
Group
THE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING & ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036(202) 296-2296www.arl.org/sparc
First International Public Knowledge Project Scholarly
Publishing ConferenceVancouver, BC
What We’ll Cover
1. Society publishers are economically important
What We’ll Cover
1. Society publishers are economically important
2. Society publishers face market & structural constraints
What We’ll Cover
1. Society publishers are economically important
2. Society publishers face market & structural constraints
3. Cooperatives offer a model to support society self-publishing
First Point:Society publishers are economically important
The Mixed Market for Journals
~23,000 scholarly & scientific journals
Increasing at~3. 5% per year
For-profit journalsincreasing at 2X the rate of society journals
Per Ulrich’s analysis, 2005.
Doubling every 22 years
Commercial publishersrepresent slightly larger slices of much larger pie
68%
32%
Per Ulrich’s analysis, 2005.
The Mixed Market, 2025
Average prices differ by publisher type
Per Bergstrom & Dhuey, 2003.
The Mixed Market for Journals
Journals per Society
Almost 90% of publishing societies publish one journal
Over 97% publisher three or fewer journals
Per Ulrich’s analysis, 2005.
Journals by Medium
Substantial portion of peer reviewed journals remain print only
Per Ulrich’s analysis, 2005.
Why Society Publishers Important
• Scholarly & scientific publishing doubling every 20 years
• For-profit journals growing faster than non-profits
• For-profit journals cost 3X to 5X more than self-published society journals
Second Point:Society publishers face market & structural constraints
Market Pressures
• Pressure on subscription model– For-profit prices & bundles capturing
budget dollars
– Tight library budgets
– Many small non-profits competing against a few large for-profits