The Royal Society of New Zealand (
http://www.rsnz.org) receives a direct
(though small) subsidy from the Ministry of Research, Science and
Technology of the NZ Government to support its programme of scholarly
publications. See Serials, 17(1), 69-75, 2004.
Since the point of this discussion is supposedly to discover
what direct stakes national governments have in journal
publishing, the sort of example you give is not relevant.
*However, if we regarded such instances as 'subsidy', then
this whole exercise is pointless.* Exactly 100% of all
scholarly journals in the world are subsidized.
What Jean-Claude is looking for is instances of cash
subsidies from public money - transfers of real money from a
national government to subsidize a journal. *And this is not
the way to go about it, even if the data were useful for
something. The results are simply too liable to
misinterpretation.*
Received on Mon Oct 03 2005 - 19:36:51 BST