Take a look at the work of Mark McCabe from the Economics Department
at Georgia Institute of Technology:
The Impact of Publisher Mergers on Journal Prices: An Update
<
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/207/jrnlprices.html>
The Impact of Publisher Mergers on Journal Prices: A Preliminary
Report <
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/200/mccabe.html>
Rick Johnson
SPARC
>The publishing company Harcourt Brace recently put itself up for sale. Its
>STM holdings include WB Saunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone, MD Consult
>and Academic Press. The financial press has been reporting that likely
>purchasers include Wolters Kluwer (owners of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
>and Ovid) and Reed Elsevier (owners of everything else).
>Can anybody direct me to any papers, publications, or other information
>that address the issue of monopolies and mergers in science publishing and
>the potential affects on the scientific community please?
Rick Johnson * Enterprise Director
SPARC * Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
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